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Sonya

American  
[soh-nyuh, saw-nyah] / ˈsoʊ nyə, ˈsɔ nyɑ /

noun

  1. a female given name, Russian form of Sophia.


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Think about what you enjoy about the friendship and what your long connection means to you, suggests financial psychologist Sonya Lutter at Texas Tech University.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

“We all should be tokenmaxxing,” said Sonya Huang, a partner at Sequoia Capital.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 14, 2026

Dr Sonya Babu-Narayan from the British Heart Foundation said she hoped the injections could be made available to everyone who could benefit "as soon as possible".

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

After the incident Sonya bought a new car with doors that lock automatically, and she's now installed dashcams.

From BBC • Aug. 30, 2025

Sonya, the tiny African American woman across from me, seems frozen in terror.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich

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