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Miranda

[mi-ran-duh, mee-rahn-dah]

noun

  1. Francisco de 1750–1816, Venezuelan revolutionist and patriot.

  2. Astronomy.a moon of the planet Uranus.

  3. the daughter of Prospero in Shakespeare's The Tempest.

  4. a given name: from a Latin word meaning “to be admired.”



adjective

  1. Law.of, relating to, or being upheld by the Supreme Court ruling (Miranda v. Arizona, 1966) requiring law-enforcement officers to warn a person who has been taken into custody of their rights to remain silent and to have legal counsel.

    He was read his Miranda rights, placed under arrest, and transported to the jail.

    Service officers must read the Miranda warning to an arrested person before asking them any investigative questions.

Miranda

1

/ ɪˈæԻə /

noun

  1. one of the larger satellites of the planet Uranus

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Miranda

2

/ ˈԻ岹 /

noun

  1. Francisco de (franˈsisko de). 1750–1816, Venezuelan revolutionary, who planned to liberate South and Central America from Spain. A leader (1811–12) of the Venezuelan uprising, he surrendered to Spain and died in prison

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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After Chbosky’s 1999 book sold millions of copies and inked countless infinity sign tattoos, twee art hit the market hard, marked by characters who were both precious and precocious, determined to be their own person no matter who disagreed; think “Juno,” “Where the Wild Things Are” and almost everything Miranda July, Wes Anderson and Zooey Deschanel did between the years 2001 and 2012.

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The same can be said for Miranda’s wardrobe.

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Twenty years earlier, two progressive constitutional law scholars reacted to an increasingly conservative Supreme Court’s erosion of the Warren Court’s pro-criminal defendant Miranda v.

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My favorite writers certainly thought so with the most popular books that year being about divorce and self-actualization: “All Fours” by Miranda July, “Splinters” by Leslie Jamison and “Liars” by Sarah Manguso.

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Where Miranda and Steve evoked a nation’s worth of wincing and self-examination, Kate and Jack resemble millions of devoted heterosexual duos who aren’t exactly the model of hot monogamy.

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