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jonah

[joh-nuh] / ˈdʒoʊ nə /


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Nearly 137 years later, Democratic Rep. Jonah Wheeler hopes to undo that act as prime sponsor of the proposed amendment.

From The Wall Street Journal

A video from Project Jonah, a non-profit working with marine mammals, showed volunteers pouring buckets of water on the whales to keep them cool.

From BBC

Jonah Pierce scored 13 points to lead the Blue Hose, a tiny South Carolina-based outfit out of the Big South Conference that lost to California by only 10 points this week.

From Los Angeles Times

Once viewed as a wunderkind from the beginning of baseball’s data revolution—he was the loose basis of Jonah Hill’s character in the “Moneyball” movie—DePodesta abandoned the sport nearly a decade ago.

From The Wall Street Journal

The Silver family is interracial, Lena being black, Sarah white, and Jonah biracial, their parents having married after their respective divorces and everyone converting to Judaism.

From The Wall Street Journal