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Olga

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[ol-guh, ohl-, awl-guh] / ˈɒl gə, ˈoʊl-, ˈɔl gə /

noun

  1. Saint, died a.d. 968?, regent of Kyiv until 955: saint of the Russian Orthodox Church.

  2. a female given name: from a Scandinavian word meaning “holy.”


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External collaborators included the DNAzoo project and Olga Dudchenko and Erez Lieberman Aiden, who are both faculty members at Rice University and at the Baylor College of Medicine.

From Science Daily • Mar. 26, 2026

Power suppliers want to make sure that if demand doesn’t grow enough, they still have enough commitments in general to fund any increase in capacity, said Olga Usvyatsky, an accounting consultant.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026

Discretionary Olympic spots are infrequent, but in 2023, fencer Olga Kharlan received a place at Paris 2024 from former IOC President Thomas Bach.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 29, 2026

Matthew Turner, representing Sara's mother, Olga Domin, said the pair "would have the right to ask questions".

From BBC • Jan. 16, 2026

He spoke to Olga in Russian, and she’d later tell people that his command of the language was “pretty good.”

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady