Lorrie

[ lawr-ee ]

noun

1. a female given name, form of Laura.

Example Sentences

Dr. Lorrie Clemo, the president of D’Youville University, said in an interview on Wednesday that the university wanted to open up new perspectives around A.I., given its “rapid emergence into the broad society.”

From New York Times

In an open letter published last month, and endorsed by Naomi Klein and Lorrie Moore among others, the signers criticized PEN for not mobilizing “any substantial coordinated support” for Palestinians and for not upholding its mission to “dispel all hatreds and to champion the ideal of one humanity living in peace and equality in one world.”

From Seattle Times

An open letter published in March and signed by Naomi Klein, Lorrie Moore and dozens of others contends that PEN had not “launched any substantial coordinated support” for Palestinians and was not upholding its mission to “dispel all hatreds and to champion the ideal of one humanity living in peace and equality in one world.”

From Seattle Times

The novelist Lorrie Moore on Thursday won a National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction for “I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home,” her novel that follows a devastated young teacher who goes on a road trip with the animated corpse of his ex-girlfriend, who has died by suicide.

From New York Times

The letter, signed by a group that includes novelists, poets and nonfiction writers, among them Lorrie Moore, Naomi Klein, Michelle Alexander, Hisham Matar, Isabella Hammad, Maaza Mengiste and Zaina Arafat, is the latest example of growing divisions in the literary world over the war in Gaza, as literary journals, book fairs and festivals have wrestled with how to navigate tensions around the conflict.

From New York Times