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Naomi

(nāō`mē, –mī, nā`ō–), in the Bible, Ruth's mother-in-law.

Naomi

Old Testament the mother-in-law of Ruth (Ruth 1:2)
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I must have been allergic to one of the drugs and I got really sick," said Naomi.
'I had to choose: A baby or the use of my legs' After being diagnosed with MS, young Naomi faced an agonising decision WoS REAL LIFE stories
Naomi was born in Thornton, PA, and raised on a dairy farm in Ithan, PA.
Naomi (Brous) Mortimer
Not least she had yet to be born when the other Naomi became the first black woman to grace the cover of French Vogue in August 1988.
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Naomi is such a good actress, and Ellie's a really good actress too, but how great can you be when you have to audition for some stupid piece-of-shit show, you know?
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In ``Ellie Parker,'' Naomi Watts is at her best playing an actress who is at her worst.
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Both affairs are short-lived; for Naomi it is an overnight with Michael in a Manhattan hotel room, while Rick spends a few late nights in his office manager's humble apartment.
In Dahlia's Wake
Right away Naomi is defined by the men in her life.
Bitterness and friendship: a feminist exegesis of the Book of Ruth
Police concerned for her safety cordoned off the beach near Weld Road, while officers conduct a fingertip search for more clues which may help them find Naomi, a receptionist for Pontins in Ainsdale.
DAD'S PLEA FOR MISSING NAOMI
Among the more interesting of the essays are those examining the role of breastfeeding in early modern culture, including Naomi Yavneh's "To Bare or Not Too Bare: Sofonisba Anguissola's Nursing Madonna and the Womanly Art of Breastfeeding," which explores the more naturalistic rendering of breast-feeding (and its nutritive rather than sexual element) by a female artist, especially as it contrasts with a time in which the humanity-oriented Madonna lactans was overtaken by portrayals of "the Assumption and Immaculate Conception, which stress [Mary's] divinely privileged difference" (75).
Maternal Measures: Figuring Caregiving in the Early Modern Period.
Naomi and Emily may self-consciously resist bearing children because they do not want to reproduce children in the environment of racism and hatred that fueled war crimes.
Ethnic reproduction and the amniotic deep: Joy Kogawa's Obasan
Naomi (right) is aiming to make a career in the catering industry as a pastry chef and has the full backing of her boss, and hotel head chef David Price (left).
Workforce: Naomi is head chef in the making
With no improvement in her behavior, Naomi finally is sent to watch her aging relative, Mrs.
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