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Valerie

American  
[val-uh-ree] / ˈvæl ə ri /
Also Valeria

noun

  1. a female given name.


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“You don’t see them walking around, and stopping in a gallery, and buying art, and trying to cultivate connoisseurship with their siblings or their children,” said Valerie Wade, a San Francisco gallerist.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

It is an "under-estimate" to say impulse control disorders affect fewer than 1% of patients in drug leaflets, according to Valerie Voon, who was one of the authors of the 2010 study.

From BBC • Mar. 28, 2026

"The rule is to have no tariffs on what circulates via the internet," Valerie Picard, an official with the International Chamber of Commerce, who is attending the conference, told AFP.

From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026

For its third and final season, “The Comeback” finds Valerie a project in which she’s the star and an executive producer.

From Salon • Mar. 26, 2026

Valerie was calm, bold, and wise in ways that few people I’d met before were.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama