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Loretta

[ luh-ret-uh, law-, loh- ]

noun

  1. a female given name, form of Laura.


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Senate Democrats face a choice: pushing through AG nominee Loretta Lynch, or filling 231 executive-branch vacancies.

State Senator Loretta Weinberg, who co-sponsored the New Jersey legislation, appeared on MSNBC with an offer to repeal the law.

“The United States v. Hector Monsegur,” Judge Loretta Preska said.

What a group: Oprah Winfrey, Gloria Steinem, and Loretta Lynn were among the 16 recipients of the prestigious Medal of Freedom.

Here are the highlights: the speeches about President Bill Clinton, Oprah Winfrey, Gloria Steinem, Loretta Lynn, and Ben Bradlee.

They were the words Loretta had used, and in the voice of each was the same strange tone of disappointment.

"Pshaw," said Loretta, but June saw two bright spots come into her pretty cheeks, and she herself burned inwardly.

Old Hon and the step-mother alone talked at first, and the others, even Loretta, said never a word.

Her cousin Loretta hadn't married, and some folks allowed she'd run away some day yet with young Buck Falin.

Sometimes Loretta would come and spend the day, and she seemed little less distressed than June.

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