Dolores Definition & Meaning

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Dolores American [duh-lawr-is, -lohr-] / dəˈlɔr ɪs, -ˈloʊr- /

noun

1. a female given name: from a Latin word meaning “sorrows.”

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Property records show that White purchased a Studio City dwelling for $1.45 million via a trust in 2017, when he was still in a relationship with his ex-wife, Addison Timlin, with whom he shares two daughters: Ezer, 7, and Dolores, 5.

From MarketWatch

He met his future wife, Dolores Diane Beecher, at a Salvation Army summer camp.

From Los Angeles Times

Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta organized farmworkers in 1962.

From The Wall Street Journal

The remains of these invisible dead end up in Dolores Cemetery, Mexico's largest, situated in Chapultepec Forest.

From Barron's

Each year around 500 people are buried in unmarked graves in Dolores Cemetery.

From Barron's

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