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- proper noun A female
given name , a pseudo-Hebrew spelling ofNora , diminutive ofEleonora orHonora .
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Examples
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Norah is possibly one of the few sober people in the club that night, basically trying all she can to keep her friend, Catherine, from ending up in the broom closet with some random singer or guitarist.
Archive 2009-12-01 2009
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Norah is the broody, "straight-edge" daughter of a music executive, out on the town with her friend, Catherine, who isn't nearly as averse to alcohol.
Archive 2009-12-01 2009
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Norah is finally realizing her son is NOT perfect … and now she can see how “giving him away” to her philandering, embezzeling, blowhard husband might have affected Tommy.
'Brothers and Sisters' recap: The prodigal son returns | EW.com 2009
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Norah is the broody, "straight-edge" daughter of a music executive, out on the town with her friend, Catherine, who isn't nearly as averse to alcohol.
Rabid Reads: "Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist" by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan 2009
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Norah is possibly one of the few sober people in the club that night, basically trying all she can to keep her friend, Catherine, from ending up in the broom closet with some random singer or guitarist.
Rabid Reads: "Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist" by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan 2009
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Off topic, but Nick and Norah is total reluctant-reader catnip.
Hitting Them over the Head Roger Sutton 2007
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Take for example Tris, who in Norah's judgment is nothing more than a groupie.
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Norah sees no value in what groups Tris likes and doesn't like; Tris isn't as "real" as Norah is in her love of music.
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After Norah has successfully destroyed the wasps nest, Edwards writes that there was something happening in Norahs life, an explosion, some way in which life could never be the same (p. 139).
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All these preoccupations jostle for space in a long letter dispatched to Norah from the Wallington cottage on New Year's day 1938.
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