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Blanche

American  
[blanch, blahnch] / blæntʃ, blɑntʃ /

noun

  1. a first name: ultimately from a Germanic word meaning “white.”


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Additionally, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche has pledged to prosecute anyone who buys or sells sanctioned Iranian oil.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026

"Violence cannot be the norm for expressing disagreement, be it with politics or a technology or any other matter," said Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche.

From BBC • Apr. 13, 2026

Blanche may or may not be an ideologue; his history is vague in that regard.

From Salon • Apr. 12, 2026

Blanche, who was confirmed as deputy attorney general last year, said any task that Trump offered going forward would be fine with him.

From Slate • Apr. 11, 2026

An hour or two sufficed to sketch my own portrait in crayons; and in less than a fortnight I had completed an ivory miniature of an imaginary Blanche Ingram.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë