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agnes

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for agnes.

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My Big Agnes is treated as if it is tissue paper where the Eureka somehow survived containing teens wrestling inside.

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Quick take

A female given name from Ancient Greek.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of agnes gathered in one view.

noun

A female given name from Ancient Greek.

noun

A locality in South Gippsland Shire, south eastern Victoria, Australia.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for agnes.

noun

A female given name from Ancient Greek.

noun

A locality in South Gippsland Shire, south eastern Victoria, Australia.

Example sentences

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My Big Agnes is treated as if it is tissue paper where the Eureka somehow survived containing teens wrestling inside.

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I've just been travelling through Singapore and was astonished to come across young women named Agnes and Gertrude.

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Mazzarella, Graybar Electric (#451) Mary Agnes (Maggie) Wilderotter, Frontier Communications (#464) Gracia C.

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By the early 1980s around 40% of the cast and crew had developed cancer, also including Susan Hayward, Agnes Moorehead, and director Dick Powell.

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A quick google will show you that Agnes managed to get most of the donations funnelled back to the Vatican, hence her beatification by the pope.

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Victims (not patients, they were poor uneducated rural folk being collected for display) were denied painkillers and modern medication because Agnes believed in the theology of suffering.

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What would the Agnes Martin of food look like?

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If you're a cinema person, I strongly recommend Agnes Varda's documentary on LA street art at the end of the 1970s, Mur Murs.

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I'm Agnes Olorundare, a DevOps Engineer with a background in Software Development.

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We have certainly blasted past some science-fiction examples of AI like Agnes from The Twilight Zone, which 20 years ago looked a bit silly, and now looks like a remarkable prediction of LLMs.

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> By the early 1980s around 40% of the cast and crew had developed cancer, also including Susan Hayward, Agnes Moorehead, and director Dick Powell.

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Olaf Stapledon married Agnes Zena Miller, a first cousin from Australia, on July 16, 1919, at Friends Meeting House, a Quaker establishment at Reigate, Surrey.

Quote examples

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Agnes, we're really sorry too, we're here for you")(that's a terrible translation, but oh well) part?

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Searching for this, I just found another of his, "I got it from Agnes", that has also been adapted for DECtalk.

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> Mary Agnes Welch, president of the Canadian Association of Journalists stated that Human rights commissions "were never meant to act as language nannies.

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> [Alice Douglas][1] — (sometimes called "Agnes"), wife of Joe Douglas.

Proper noun examples

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Agnes Bojaxhiu aka mother theresa is one of the worst media scams out there.

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Agnes, the oldest of four children, was born in New Zealand on May 25, 1894, the daughter of Frank Edward and Margaret Barnard Miller.

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Dean Pelton: Agnes, cancel all my appointments.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use agnes in a sentence?

My Big Agnes is treated as if it is tissue paper where the Eureka somehow survived containing teens wrestling inside.

What does agnes mean?

A female given name from Ancient Greek.

What part of speech is agnes?

agnes is commonly used as noun.