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Discover LudwigThe word "jonah" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it as a proper noun, for example as a person's name, or as a common noun, meaning someone who runs away from a situation. For example, you could say "Jonah was a jonah, so he skipped town when the going got tough".
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jonah
proper noun
Given name male
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Outside of the top 10, the Jonah Hill/James Franco thriller True Story opened with an unspectacular $1.9m from 831 screens.
Check out the Guardian tomorrow for more, including an interview with Buzzfeed founder Jonah Peretti on why this video, of all activist videos, went viral.
Clint Eastwood could follow up the spectacular box office success of his controversial Iraq war drama American Sniper by directing Jonah Hill and Leonardo DiCaprio in the story of a failed Olympic bomb plot, reports Deadline.
Imagine Jonah Lomu recast as a close-quarter forward threat and you get a rough idea of Collins at his unstoppable best.
IN THE 1995 Rugby World Cup, Jonah Lomu, playing on the wing of the All Blacks, New Zealand's national team, ran contemptuously through a tackle by England's Tony Underwood to score a glorious solo try.
The trouble is that the tradition is under threat, not so much from giants such as Jonah Lomu as from an evolution of the rules that has made the sport as fast and furious as its cousin, rugby league.
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On August 10th BuzzFeed, a younger, hipper breed of digital-news firm co-founded by the Huffington Post alumnus Jonah Peretti, one-upped its predecessor.
For instance, Jonah Goldberg is a bright young right-winger who writes for the National Review with the same wry wit as Mr Buckley.
One of the opponents of the Oxford motion, Jonah Goldberg, did much to popularise "The Simpsons'" labelling of the French as "cheese-eating surrender-monkeys" in the run-up to the Iraq war.America's anti-Europeans have three big complaints about the Old Continent.
Hillary-haters may look forward to reading Jonah Goldberg's forthcoming book, "Liberal Fascism: the Totalitarian Temptation from Mussolini to Hillary Clinton", but most people just laugh.
Rather, it was his creation's awe-inspiring metallic musculature (see picture), or, as he describes it, an "optimal physical specimen", inspired by Pacific-island athletes such as rugby legend Jonah Lomu.
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