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laura

1

[ lahv-rah; English lah-vruh ]

noun

Greek Orthodox Church.
  1. a monastery consisting formerly of a group of cells or huts for monks who met together for meals and worship.


Laura

2

[ lawr-uh ]

noun

  1. a female given name: from a Latin word meaning “laurel.”
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Word History and Origins

Origin of laura1

1720–30; < Medieval Greek ú ( Greek: lane, passage)
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Example Sentences

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On the day she changed her locks to keep him out, 25-year-old Laura Sardinha was on a call with her mother and her best friend, sounding relieved to be done with boyfriend Craig J. Charron.

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Later, filming himself in the apartment, he can be heard saying, “Oh my God, don’t hit me…Laura, why are you hitting me?” while she sits on the couch yards away, trying to ignore him.

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Alongside music by Laura Nyro, Alice Coltrane’s elegiac “There’s Something About John Coltrane” anchors the choreography, which features a Black female solo dancer, costumed in regal all-white, who moves from pantomimes of brutal labor under captivity to ecstatic but brooding liberation silhouettes that wheel and wallow in the restoration of her sovereign identity.

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However, speaking on told BBC One's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme, he said there was still three years until the next general election for the Tories to "battle" Reform.

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The 34-year-old joked on the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg that "it is one of the great last barriers to break down".

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