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Vanessa

American  
[vuh-nes-uh] / vəˈnɛs ə /

noun

  1. a female given name.


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Special mention should also go to the performances by Vanessa Ceban and Jonathan Ciprian Breazu as the couple’s teenage children, also to Henrikke Lund-Olsen as a neighbor girl who becomes close to them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026

"This observation confirms that the instrument can produce a focused image," said Vanessa Bailey, a Roman Coronagraph Instrument scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026

MCALLEN, Texas — Vanessa Ovalle has a “frontline view” of Texas schools as a single mom and a speech pathologist at a local school in McAllen, a city in the Rio Grande Valley bordering Mexico.

From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2026

There are five bedrooms in the main residence, providing more than enough space for Nick, Vanessa, and their three children: Camden, Phoenix, and Brooklyn.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

Vanessa arrived with a whole crew of friends wearing bright-green T-shirts that said GT.

From "The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora" by Pablo Cartaya

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