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Molly


Definition:

  • (n.) Same as Mollemoke.
  • (n.) A pet or colloquial name for Mary.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We are pleased to see the process moving forward and look forward to its resolution,” a Target spokeswoman, Molly Snyder, said in an emailed statement.
  • (2) Instead, he handed over the opening to reporter Molly Line, who said, “Racial profiling is in the eye of the beholder,” before citing differing perceptions of the phenomenon between white and black people, which is like reading the headline “Rapist, Victim Differ on Consent”.
  • (3) Molly Prince, managing director of the company, refuted the Guardian story with some lustily expressed but random facts: "CPUK have not only purchased tents for everyone (some stewards wanted to use their own but it was too wet to put them up, they insisted in having a go!).
  • (4) Could the typical journey of the modern pint – a week-long trek from cow to fridge via tankers, processing plants, distribution hubs and supermarkets – be replaced by a bucolic idyll of farmers milking and bottling before delivering, all within 12 hours, as Our Cow Molly does?
  • (5) In the sailfin molly, Poecilia latipinna, seven morphological endocrine cell-types could be distinguished with the electron microscope.
  • (6) There are going to be some people on either side who are going to be really emphatic about what they believe,” said Molly Roberts, a 22-year-old senior studying English who writes a column for the Harvard Crimson, the university’s student newspaper.
  • (7) Heart-warming and heart-breaking, Tales takes us from 1976 to 2012, from shared landlines to Facebook, from Quaaludes to Molly (MDMA), from the fringe to the mainstream.
  • (8) Chromosomes of the Amazon molly, Poecilia formosa, a unisexual species of hybrid origin, were investigated by C-banding, silver staining, and fluorescent staining with DAPI, quinacrine dihydrochloride, and chromomycin A3.
  • (9) Look after everyone for me, especially Adam and Molly.
  • (10) Molly Mattingly, head of learning disability projects at the Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities : "We have a range of support mechanisms at our disposal such as personal budgets, Circles of Support and personalised living arrangements.
  • (11) Mollie Whitworth North Walsham, Norfolk • What an impressive change the House of Lords debate on tax credit regulations made to the usual childish Punch and Judy politics of the other house.
  • (12) Earlier that day, my husband had driven to Indianapolis on business, so Molly and I sat in my living room with our dogs and our laptops, drinking tea and clacking away for hours.
  • (13) She's a bichon frise called Molly and when we took her to the vet he did his routine checks and said, "You've got yourself a girl… no, a boy… no, it's a girl… no, it's both".
  • (14) An extensive system of galanin-like immunoreactive (GAL-LI) fibers has been described in the brainstem and spinal cord of the male molly, which is absent in the female (Cornbrooks and Parsons, companion paper).
  • (15) The show was pipped in the lead acting awards however, with Jim Parsons winning for his portrayal of Sheldon in The Big Bang Theory and Melissa McCarthy winning for Molly in Mike & Molly.
  • (16) He was diagnosed as having chorea mollis, a rare variant of Sydenham's chorea.
  • (17) Gabrielle and Nick with their parents, Molly and Rodney.
  • (18) November 4, 2012 Molly Ball (@mollyesque) Starting to think the greatest thing Obama has done for this country is making Republicans sneer at golf.
  • (19) After a brief first marriage to a banker, she is married to a photographer, Adrian Clarke, by whom she has two daughters, Albertine, 10 and Jessye, nine, as well as a 17-year-old stepdaughter, Molly, from his first marriage.
  • (20) I’ll call you a cab, tell them to send someone who doesn’t mind dogs, and I’ll pay,” I offered – but even as I said it, I was thinking of other possible scenarios: Molly could leave her dog overnight with me and grab any old cab home.

Polly


Definition:

  • (n.) A woman's name; also, a popular name for a parrot.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) By identifying specifically what value it adds to partnerships with private firms, DfID can help drive forward thinking about how best to deliver poverty reduction through profit-making enterprises.” This report raises serious questions about DfID’s ideological drive to work more and more with the private sector Polly Jones, Global Justice Now The report did not take into account spending by the UK’s CDC Group, formerly the Commonwealth Development Corporation, or the Private Infrastructure Development Group, in which DfID invests.
  • (2) | Gaby Hinsliff, Gary Younge, Polly Toynbee and Giles Fraser Read more It should go without saying that these are the people the Labour party was founded to represent .
  • (3) She has also had a race-consciousness that I have always found very understanding.” Heroes of 2014: Margaret Hodge | Polly Toynbee Read more There had been talk of Hodge as a potential rival to Lammy in the mayoral race but she has stepped back from that battle, saying she would like to see the nomination go to someone from an ethnic minority.
  • (4) David Blanchflower , Polly Toynbee and even the Institute of Directors have all made a better job of holding the coalition to account than Labour.
  • (5) As Polly Toynbee wrote : The NHS is a British glory, chosen by most as the best symbol of national unity.
  • (6) "I took out nasty passages about people I admire – like Polly Toynbee, George Monbiot, Deborah Orr and Yasmin Alibhai-Brown … but in a few instances, I edited the entries of people I had clashed with in ways that were juvenile or malicious: I called one of them antisemitic and homophobic, and the other a drunk."
  • (7) When women can be misogynist trolls, we need a feminist internet | Polly Toynbee Read more “We have got a very real problem with online abuse in this country,” she said.
  • (8) Yes, the NHS has been weaponised, but it was the Tories who primed the guns | Polly Toynbee Read more “David Cameron’s failure to exercise due diligence on the reforms would come back to haunt him.” The huge ensuing controversy – the largest generated by any changes in the NHS – pitted the medical establishment against the coalition.
  • (9) This nuclear power deal with China is one of the maddest ever struck | Polly Toynbee Read more Hinkley Point is scheduled for completion by 2025, eight years later than first suggested, and is intended to provide about 7% of the UK’s energy.
  • (10) But it is also the incantatory darkness of dreams and visions, death and memory, as an observing consciousness creeps into the "blinded bedrooms" of the town's inhabitants, hushing and inviting us on: "Come now, drift up the dark, come up the drifting sea-dark street now in the dark night seesawing like the sea ... " Blind Captain Cat is dreaming of long-ago sea voyages and long-dead lovers; twice-widowed Mrs Ogmore-Pritchard of her henpecked husbands; Organ Morgan of musical extravaganzas; Polly Garter of babies; Mary Ann Sailors of the Garden of Eden; Dai Bread of "Turkish girls.
  • (11) Fifeld said Pollie Pedal was run with the assistance of and benefit of Carers Australia which is a key peak organisation in his portfolio.
  • (12) Managing six toddlers is more than a challenge – it's a nigh-on physical impossibility, as my colleague Polly Toynbee pointed out last week.
  • (13) For the Tories, closed ranks: for Labour, open warfare | Polly Toynbee Read more Smith argued that a further advantage was that he was “not part of any coup or plot to get rid of Jeremy Corybn”, saying nobody called him to ask whether he would resign.
  • (14) The BBC independent drama commissioning editor, Polly Hill, said: "After three wonderful, award-winning series of The Street, we are thrilled the same team are making Accused for BBC1.
  • (15) Polly Neate, chief executive of Women’s Aid, said: “Sanctuary schemes are created to keep extremely vulnerable women and children safe, at a time when they are trying to rebuild their lives after surviving domestic violence.
  • (16) Kenny Midence and Polly Shand describe the condition and the problems facing people with SCD and their families.
  • (17) However, such a delay was not unusual, according to Filippova, even when drivers were working: “Last night it took me 1hr 40mins to get home because of unreliable Southern trains and a bus that also terminated early for no reason.” Desperate commuters, it’s time for a rebellion the government can’t ignore | Polly Toynbee Read more Rebecca Ellis, from Coulsdon, avoided tortuous travel arrangements by staying with her boyfriend in central London.
  • (18) Polly Toynbee has called it “ old-fashioned decent Toryism ”, and it can be seen at the helm of county councils such as Surrey.
  • (19) Polly Brooks was the only member of her holiday group to emerge alive: her husband of five weeks, Dan Miller, died, along with her bridesmaid Annika Linden, and seven other friends from their party.
  • (20) Even the House of Lords couldn’t stomach Osborne’s tax credit cuts | Polly Toynbee Read more In the immediate aftermath of the budget Osborne seemed to have pulled off his conjuring trick, but as often with budgets the IFS and others started to unpick the impact of his work.

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