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Lucy

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[ loo-see ]

noun

  1. the incomplete skeletal remains of a female hominin found in Hadar, Ethiopia, in 1974 and classified as Australopithecus afarensis: she has been dated at about 3.2 million years of age.


Lucy

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[ loo-see ]

noun

  1. a female given name.

Lucy

/ ˈːɪ /

noun

  1. Lucy, Saint?303 adFRomanRELIGION: martyrRELIGION: saint Saint. died ?303 ad , a virgin martyred by Diocletian in Syracuse. Feast day: Dec 13
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Lucy

  1. Nickname for one of the most complete skeletons of an early ancestor of humans ever found. Discovered in Ethiopia by Don Johanson, Tim White, and Tom Gray, Lucy lived approximately three million years ago. She walked upright, and anthropologists estimate that she was about twenty years old when she died. Lucy is considered one of the great finds of anthropology .
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of Lucy1

First recorded in 1970–75; after the Beatles' song “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” (released in 1967), a tape of which was played in the discoverers' camp during the expedition
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Post-Civil War, you discuss how there were certainly what we would call today kind of “intersectional” feminists, like Lucy Parsons, Sojourner Truth and Harriet Tubman.

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Lucy Varpetian, the group’s chairperson, said that the association’s outreach through its membership and Armenian media contacts is essential.

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"This is the largest international review of neonatal medicine ever undertaken, the results of which show Lucy Letby's convictions are no longer safe," he said.

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Creators Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss told me what to expect.

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But Lucy has known James and John since they were around six years old.

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