Clarissa

[ kluh-ris-uh ]

noun

1. a female given name, form of Clara.

Example Sentences

The current qui tam case, in which physician Clarissa Zafirov accused her employers and related companies of faking and inflating diagnostic codes to increase their Medicare reimbursements, isn’t Mizelle’s first rodeo in the game of overturning government rules and regulations.

From Los Angeles Times

“We have recently had dinoflagellate blooms up and down the California coast,” Clarissa Anderson, a biological oceanographer at Scripps and director of the Southern California Coastal Ocean Observing System, said last week.

From Los Angeles Times

"Clarissa is fortunate to have some amazing friends," Mrs Nicholls told BBC Radio Cambridgeshire.

From BBC

Riverside City Councilmember Clarissa Cervantes sued Bianco last year after the sheriff posted on social media accusing her of joining and supporting abortion rights activists who vandalized Riverside’s courthouse.

From Los Angeles Times

Yet Wood also gravitated to comedy from a young age, watching movies by the Zucker brothers and Nickelodeon shows like “You Can’t Do That on Television” and “Clarissa Explains It All.”

From Los Angeles Times