Melanie Definition & Meaning

American

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Melanie American [mel-uh-nee] / ˈmɛl ə ni /

noun

1. a female given name.

Example Sentences

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"It's about making reporting much easier so that you can report multiple accounts that are abusing you at the same time rather than having to do them one by one, which is absolutely soul destroying," said Ofcom boss Dame Melanie Dawes.

From BBC

Murphy also fathered son Christian with ex-partner Tamara Hood and son Angel with former Spice Girls singer Melanie Brown.

From MarketWatch

Salon's Melanie McFarland describes Ford as "the nation's favorite cowboy-swashbuckling archaeologist-president rolled up in one."

From Salon

Vallow Daybell’s close friend Melanie Gibb told investigators that the couple used a scoring system to determine whether people were good or evil, and that they believed people became “zombies” when they were possessed by evil spirits.

From Seattle Times

What a time, then, for both of the “Yellowjackets” story lines: its murderers’ row of former icons — Juliette Lewis, Christina Ricci, Melanie Lynskey, now Elijah Wood — playing middle-aged roles, as well as the opportunity to see those characters as their past selves, a vicarious simultaneity.

From New York Times

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