Pronunciations
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/ˈd͡ʒɛsɪkə/
Proper noun
A female given name from Hebrew.
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Lorenzo: In such a night / Did Jessica steal from the wealthy Jew, / And with an unthrift love did run from Venice, / As far as Belmont.
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She will be beautiful, of course - how could our child not be beautiful? We will name her...Jessica. Yes, that's a good name, not one of those lighter-than-air names so popular among writers of romances and fairy tales. That's a name a real little girl might have.
Jessica. It was, she later thought, a name well suited to whitehaired ladies with bright blue eyes.
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The first line of dialogue is from an off-screen Field Commander Melissa Lewis (Jessica Chastain), asking the team to stay in sight and “make NASA proud”.