Sylvia
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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“There are periods of time where the Mag Seven has taken a back seat, and this year is one of them,” says Sylvia Jablonski, chief investment officer of Defiance ETFs.
From Barron's • Mar. 5, 2026
RBC's planning committee chair Sylvia Whyte added: "I think it's really good that we've got this level of employment for Runnymede for some time, so I find this quite useful."
From BBC • Mar. 3, 2026
An agent for the NKVD, the Soviet Union’s secret police, arranged an introduction between Mercader and Sylvia Ageloff, a left-wing social worker from Brooklyn, N.Y., whose sister had once been Trotsky’s secretary.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026
The precarious state of her mind forces us to question whether Sylvia and Ted are ghosts, hallucinations or literary inventions sprung to life.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2026
For soon Sylvia has taken me aside to complain about her husband.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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