Used in a Sentence

leah

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

Editorial note

The name is most likely a reference to Leah McGrath Goodman (who, if you don't know, wrote the piece on Dorian Nakamoto in Newsweek).

Examples18
Definitions3
Parts of speech1

Quick take

A female given name from Hebrew.

Meaning at a glance

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

noun

A female given name from Hebrew.

noun

A surname.

noun

(biblical) The elder daughter of Laban, sister to Rachel, and first wife of Jacob.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for leah.

noun

A female given name from Hebrew.

noun

A surname.

noun

(biblical) The elder daughter of Laban, sister to Rachel, and first wife of Jacob.

Example sentences

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The name is most likely a reference to Leah McGrath Goodman (who, if you don't know, wrote the piece on Dorian Nakamoto in Newsweek).

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The problem with the Leah outing was that it was based on very weak and apparently distorted evidence.

3

Clicking it changes the form in the way Leah shows, probably with a quick Javascript fade so the user notices.

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Of course there's always Leah Culver, who's just plain hot no matter how you slice it.

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There's an interesting point made, but I'm not sure that I really like the direction Leah went in.

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Some Google research comes to the same conclusion Leah does, with slightly different behavior.

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Also the Leah being force sensitive was eluded to.

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Because Leah can't get anybody to pay for them.

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I can imagine how fantastic this article makes Leah feel.

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Feel free to ask questions in chat and I'll do my best to relay them all to Leah in the q&a at the end of her talk.

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The most high-profile speculation to date came in a March 6, 2014, article in the magazine Newsweek,[30] when journalist Leah McGrath Goodman identified Dorian Prentice Satoshi Nakamoto, a Japanese American man living in California, whose birth name is Satoshi Nakamoto.

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For example, this article in particular mentions Leah Culver, cofounder of Pownce, which was acquired by SixApart, but not Mena Trott, who co-founded Six Apart and obviously made a shitload more money than Leah -- as well as now being, in effect, her bosses' boss.

Quote examples

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Finally, an insider's explanation for how Leah Culver got so "famous": #1.

2

"Learning Julia" by Leah Hanson, for example.

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>"Leah Brajcich, who oversees sales at Gravity, fielded complaints from several customers who accused her boss of communist or socialist sympathies that would drive up their own employees’ wages and others who felt it was a public relations stunt."

Proper noun examples

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Leah's asking the right questions, but I don't think the direction she took is the right one.

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I'll post a link to the archive of Leah's talk when it's over.

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At first I thought Leah's TaskRabbit would eventually head that way, but to me it strikes me as if she's still massively underestimating the potential of her platform.

Frequently asked questions

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

How do you use leah in a sentence?

The name is most likely a reference to Leah McGrath Goodman (who, if you don't know, wrote the piece on Dorian Nakamoto in Newsweek).

What does leah mean?

A female given name from Hebrew.

What part of speech is leah?

leah is commonly used as noun.