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bethany

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

Editorial note

Also, if you're really looking to zone out to something esoteric, Bethany Curve and Children of the Bong are nicely mellow.

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Quick take

A female given name from Aramaic, transferred use of the biblical place name.

Meaning at a glance

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

noun

A female given name from Aramaic, transferred use of the biblical place name.

noun

A city, the county seat of Harrison County, Missouri, United States.

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Other places naned Bethany elsewhere:

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for bethany.

noun

A female given name from Aramaic, transferred use of the biblical place name.

noun

A city, the county seat of Harrison County, Missouri, United States.

noun

Other places naned Bethany elsewhere:

noun

(biblical) The village where Jesus stayed before going to Jerusalem and being crucified.

Example sentences

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Also, if you're really looking to zone out to something esoteric, Bethany Curve and Children of the Bong are nicely mellow.

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Also by the creators of Beeminder (me and Bethany Soule) is TagTime, which is related to your idea of periodic prompts.

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In this episode of the Overcommitted Podcast, host Brittany Ellich and co-hosts Bethany and Erika welcome Thomas Dohmke, former CEO of GitHub.

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Aaron: sort of yes D: we think of it as mathematically equivalent to me *halfway* skating bethany the keys.

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Here was my answer to a similar question on LessWrong: Bethany and I philosophically bite the bullet on this, which is basically...

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Now that I'm introspecting, I suppose it's the case that Bethany and I tend to seize excuses to redistribute wealth, but they have to be plausible ones.

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:) The reporter is actually a Beeminder user, which is how he knew about me and Bethany and our craziness, and he was happy to agree to our stipulation that the article link to Beeminder.

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'Enron: The smartest guys in the room' by Bethany McLean.

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Here are the bids: @bee: 0, @dreev: 10 [bethany deploys the code] Aaron: do those bids mean bee doesn't care, and dreev was more willing to pay $10 than to deploy?

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We do use a 6% interest rate on that balance, which seems steep at current market rates, but not so much so that Bethany would want to transfer Beeminder equity to me to pay it off.

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Looks like an interesting project; suggestion: reshoot your intro video without making Bethany laugh while she's explaining how the site works - I found it very distracting and thus hard to take her seriously.

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Will all those who poured hate and bile on @bnoordhuis for gender specific pronouns or @antirez for his views on sexism in IT please step forward and throw rotten tomatoes at Bethany McLean, the author of this sexist tome?

Quote examples

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"Danny paid Bethany about $30,000 in various costs to have their first child while he worked a full-time tech job" I wonder what her bid was for him to have the baby.

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A startup founded by ex-Apple design and engineering team Imran Chaudhri and Bethany Bongiorno, Humane, today raised another $100 million to build what it calls an “integrated device and cloud services platform” for AI.

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Here's another example as told by us to the reporter, that didn't make the cut: ("D" is me and "B" is Bethany, my spouse/cofounder) Another funny auction today, with discussion in our Beeminder developer chatroom.

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Even faster and perhaps more instructive is looking up Bethany Mota: "Her YouTube channel has more subscribers than Lady Gaga (4.8 million), she has more Instagram followers than Elle, Vogue, Glamour and Marie Claire combined (2.2 million)." (First read about her yesterday, accidentally.

Proper noun examples

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Bethany McLean is the best in business writing.

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Drove a new Hyundai with dealer plates from AZ to Minnesota and got pulled over by Bethany, MO city police on I-35 in northern MO with no probable cause other than window tint being too dark.

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Bethany Bryson, a sociologist at JMU has shown that increased education is associated with increased inclusiveness in musical taste (i.e., highly educated people like more types of music) but that these people are most likely to reject music that is highly favored by the least educated people.

Frequently asked questions

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

How do you use bethany in a sentence?

Also, if you're really looking to zone out to something esoteric, Bethany Curve and Children of the Bong are nicely mellow.

What does bethany mean?

A female given name from Aramaic, transferred use of the biblical place name.

What part of speech is bethany?

bethany is commonly used as noun.