Nancy
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How to use Nancy in a sentence
For context, he was engaged to his longtime girlfriend, Nancy, who also went to Harvard undergrad and was a successful lawyer.
From pickup basketball to market domination: My wild ride with Coupang | Ram Iyer | April 12, 2021 | TechCrunchI don’t think Nancy relished mounting Dingell on her wall — she certainly didn’t brag about it — but that’s not the point.
In new book, John Boehner says today’s GOP is unrecognizable to traditional conservatives and dishes on his time in politics | Paul Kane, Colby Itkowitz, Aaron Blake | April 9, 2021 | Washington PostMore than three decades after those events, Neel painted “Nancy and Olivia,” a flat-out masterpiece.
Alice Neel was the greatest American portraitist of the 20th century. Her work continues to astonish. | Sebastian Smee | March 25, 2021 | Washington PostNew manager Nancy is on a one-year contract with CF Montréal, but there are team options beyond the year.
Coaching Turnover Is Constant In Major League Soccer | Julian McKenzie | March 18, 2021 | FiveThirtyEightNancy is also more of the face and voice of the brand because she’s a nurse and has been working on people’s skin for decades.
The skin care brand striving to make medical-grade topicals both more luxe and accessible | Rachel King | November 29, 2020 | Fortune
With a government shutdown looming, Nancy Pelosi and Michele Bachmann are on the same side.
Bachmann and Pelosi vs. Boehner and Obama Over Spending Bill | Ben Jacobs | December 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTSingers Nancy Wilson and Billy Eckstine attended, and actor and activist Ossie Davis delivered a well-received speech.
When Bill Cosby N-Bombed the Congressional Black Caucus | Asawin Suebsaeng | December 2, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe septuagenarian duo of Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi will be able to keep their chauffer-driven, taxpayer-funded limos.
With Immigration Move, Obama and the Welfare Party Strike Again | Lloyd Green | November 24, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe Emancipation Proclamation, as Nancy Pelosi reminds us, was an executive action.
Nancy heard the shot, then another, and came to the window to witness the third and final bullet be fired into her husband.
We stood there chatting about one thing and another, when I noticed that Nancy was not talking much and seemed rather pale.
Uncanny Tales | VariousNancy was little the worse for the awful accident, bruised, of course, but poor Masters was unconscious.
Uncanny Tales | VariousNancy Watling deigned no reply to his farewell salutation, but walked indignantly across her moon-lighted lawn.
The World Before Them | Susanna MoodieNancy, appearing much gratified thereby, saluted him cordially.
Oliver Twist, Vol. II (of 3) | Charles DickensHe had come up from Nancy that morning, and had since occupied the time in strolling about seeing the sights of the little place.
The Doctor of Pimlico | William Le Queux
British Dictionary definitions for nancy (1 of 2)
/ (ˈnænsɪ) /
: Also called: nancy boy
an effeminate or homosexual boy or man
(as modifier): his nancy ways
Origin of nancy
1British Dictionary definitions for Nancy (2 of 2)
/ (ˈnænsɪ, French ˈnɑ̃si) /
a city in NE France: became the capital of the dukes of Lorraine in the 12th century, becoming French in 1766; administrative and financial centre. Pop: 103 605 (1999)
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