Example Sentences

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A firm nee from the Dutch over McDonald’s AI-generated Christmas ad.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 11, 2025

In 1945, Anna Reynolds, nee Aulick, then 18, hitched a ride with an aunt and uncle from her family’s home in rural Kentucky to San Francisco, where they lived.

From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2025

Princess Rita Jenrette Boncompagni Ludovisi, nee Rita Carpenter, abandoned the Casino dell’Aurora off the swank Via Veneto hours after Carabinieri police arrived to enforce a court-mandated eviction order.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 20, 2023

One of the four was Sarah Wrigley, nee Johnston, a 19-year-old Cardiff girl whose musician father had taught her to play the guitar.

From BBC • Oct. 28, 2022

Sourmelina Zizmo, nee Papadiamandopoulos, was my grandparents’ cousin and hence my first cousin twice removed.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides