Eli
a Hebrew judge and priest. 1 Samuel 1–4.
Also El·ie [el-ee]. /ˈɛl i/. a male given name: from a Hebrew word meaning “height.”
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They couldn’t agree on how many people Eli had helped, for example.
My mother and her friends couldn’t get coronavirus vaccine appointments, so they turned to a stranger for help. He’s 13. | Greg Harris | February 12, 2021 | Washington PostA school official who tested Eli found “mild characteristics” of the disability and recommended reading intervention.
Thousands of families in special-education limbo | Cayla Bamberger, Sarah Butrymowicz, Jackie Mader, Caroline Preston | December 18, 2020 | Washington PostShe declined to comment on Eli’s specific complaint or experience.
Thousands of families in special-education limbo | Cayla Bamberger, Sarah Butrymowicz, Jackie Mader, Caroline Preston | December 18, 2020 | Washington PostEli was still waiting months after classes resumed remotely in August, with no word from their school or district as to when the evaluation would start.
Thousands of families in special-education limbo | Cayla Bamberger, Sarah Butrymowicz, Jackie Mader, Caroline Preston | December 18, 2020 | Washington PostThe family waited for Eli’s school, the Liberal Arts and Science Academy in Austin, to start the evaluation process.
Thousands of families in special-education limbo | Cayla Bamberger, Sarah Butrymowicz, Jackie Mader, Caroline Preston | December 18, 2020 | Washington Post
Eli says something very interesting during his conversation with Alicia: “They [voters] want people who are open-minded.”
The Good Wife’s Religion Politics: Voters Have No Faith in Alicia's Atheism | Regina Lizik | November 24, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHis campaign manager, Eli Gold, sees this as an opportunity.
The Good Wife’s Religion Politics: Voters Have No Faith in Alicia's Atheism | Regina Lizik | November 24, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe studied at the Bnei David yeshiva, built as part of the Eli settlement deep inside the occupied West Bank.
These “Book of Eli” deserts are where the imagined, however bizarre or hideous, can turn undeniably real.
Has it not been vividly described in all its horror by Eli Wiesel and others?
But there is not much recorded of him until twenty years after the death of Eli, who lived to be ninety.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume II | John LordEli gave Raoul one final nod, as if he knew what Raoul had been thinking, and let the tent flap fall behind him.
Shaman | Robert SheaMore invitations to Eli's room, more liquor ladled out and more money handed around to the company.
Watch Yourself Go By | Al. G. FieldAlfred argued with the mother that he had accepted money from Eli and was in honor bound to work it out.
Watch Yourself Go By | Al. G. FieldAgain the crowd was too large for the courthouse; again Eli made friends who detained him after the departure of the troupe.
Watch Yourself Go By | Al. G. Field
British Dictionary definitions for Eli
/ (ˈiːlaɪ) /
Old Testament the highest priest at Shiloh and teacher of Samuel (I Samuel 1–3)
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