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Miranda

[ mi-ran-duh; Spanish mee-rahn-dah ]

noun

  1. Fran·cis·co de [f, r, ahn-, sees, -kaw , th, e], 1750–1816, Venezuelan revolutionist and patriot.
  2. Astronomy. a moon of the planet Uranus.
  3. the daughter of Prospero in Shakespeare's The Tempest.
  4. a given name: from a Latin word meaning “to be admired.”


adjective

  1. Law. of, relating to, or being upheld by the Supreme Court ruling ( Miranda v. Arizona, 1966) requiring law-enforcement officers to warn a person who has been taken into custody of their rights to remain silent and to have legal counsel:

    He was read his Miranda rights, placed under arrest, and transported to the jail.

    Service officers must read the Miranda warning to an arrested person before asking them any investigative questions.

Miranda

1

/ ɪˈæԻə /

noun

  1. one of the larger satellites of the planet Uranus
“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

Miranda

2

/ ˈԻ岹 /

noun

  1. MirandaFrancisco de17501816MVenezuelanPOLITICS: revolutionaryPOLITICS: nationalist Francisco de (franˈsisko de). 1750–1816, Venezuelan revolutionary, who planned to liberate South and Central America from Spain. A leader (1811–12) of the Venezuelan uprising, he surrendered to Spain and died in prison
“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
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Miranda was 35 weeks, 5 days pregnant when she began having symptoms of preeclampsia.

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Miranda gave birth to her dead baby daughter via C-section delivery.

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Joy and sorrow are intermingled because this grand experience — involving professional sets, costumes, lighting and sound, as well as videos of personal encouragement made for the kids by Broadway superstars Lin-Manuel Miranda, Daveed Diggs and the casts of “The Lion King” and “Aladdin” — is over.

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Miranda Yousef, in her feature directing debut, deftly takes on Kinkade’s timely and intriguing story in the documentary “Art for Everybody,” an absorbing, smartly assembled portrait of the mega rise and tragic fall of the Jekyll-and-Hyde-like artist.

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Frankie Miranda, president and CEO of the Hispanic Federation, a nonprofit advocacy group, told Salon that the threat of both deportation and detention is hanging over the Hispanic community in the United States.

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