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Debit card
A debit card is a payment card that deducts money directly from the cardholder's checking account at purchase or withdrawal, rather than drawing on a line of credit.
Debits and credits
Debits and credits are the two directional entries of double-entry bookkeeping: debits enter on the left side of an account, credits on the right, and every debit requires an equal credit.
Debjan
Debjan (দেবযান) is a 1946 Bengali novel by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay that imagines the afterlife as a series of parallel worlds through which the souls of the dead travel.
DeBlase children murders
The DeBlase children murders: Natalie, 4, and Chase DeBlase, 3, killed in Mobile, Alabama in 2010; father John Joseph DeBlase and Heather Leavell-Keaton were each convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death.
Debora Green
Debora Green (born Debora Jones, 1951) is an American former oncologist who pleaded no contest to the 1995 arson killing of her children Tim and Kelly in Prairie Village, Kansas, and to ricin-poisoning her husband Michael Farrar; serving a hard 40 sentence.
Debora Marks
Debora S. Marks is a computational biologist and Professor of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School, known for predicting protein 3D structure from evolutionary sequence covariation.
Debora Vaarandi
Debora Vaarandi, born Debora Trull (1916 to 2007), was an Estonian poet of the postwar era whose poem Talgud Lööne soos supplied the lyrics of the beloved Saaremaa valss.
Deborah (דְּבוֹרָה)
Deborah is a prophetess and judge in the Hebrew Bible's Book of Judges. She was the wife of Lappidoth and led Israel's victory over Sisera's Canaanite army.
Deborah A. Nickerson
Deborah A. Nickerson, also known as Deborah Nickerson, was an American human geneticist at the University of Washington who pioneered SNP detection and exome sequencing for diagnosing rare disease.
Deborah A. Zarin
Deborah A. Zarin is an American physician and clinical-trials transparency researcher who directed ClinicalTrials.gov from 2005 to 2018, building its first public database of trial results.
Deborah Adeimy
Deborah Adeimy is an American Republican politician and financial services executive who won the 2026 GOP primary for Florida's 23rd Congressional District, facing Lois Frankel in November.
Deborah Ann Woll
Deborah Ann Woll (born 1985, Brooklyn) is an American actress known as Jessica Hamby in True Blood and Karen Page in Daredevil, The Defenders, The Punisher, and Daredevil: Born Again, plus tabletop gaming series Relics and Rarities and Children of Éarte.
Deborah Birx
Deborah Birx (Deborah Leah Birx, born 1956), American physician and diplomat; U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator 2014–2020 overseeing PEPFAR, led RV 144 Thai HIV vaccine trial, and White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator 2020–2021.
Deborah Bourc'his
Déborah Bourc'his is a French epigeneticist at Institut Curie who studies DNA methylation in germ cells and embryos, known for deciphering DNMT3B, DNMT3L, and DNMT3C.
Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (Deborah Mitford, Debo, 1920–2014), youngest Mitford sister, memoirist and restorer of Chatsworth House; created its farm shop and farmyard and wrote Wait for Me!.
Deborah Chow
Deborah Chow is a Canadian director and showrunner from Toronto who directed The High Cost of Living (2010), two episodes of The Mandalorian, and all six episodes of Obi-Wan Kenobi (2022), becoming the first woman to direct live-action Star Wars.
Deborah Compagnoni
Deborah Compagnoni, Italian alpine skier born 1970 in Bormio; first to win alpine skiing gold at three consecutive Winter Olympics (1992 super-G, 1994 and 1998 giant slalom) plus 1998 slalom silver.
Deborah Cox
Deborah Cox, Toronto-born Canadian R&B and dance singer and Broadway actress; hit "Nobody's Supposed to Be Here" (14 weeks at #1 R&B), 13 Dance Club Play #1s, first Black woman in the Canadian Music Hall of Fame (2022).
Deborah Coyne
Deborah Coyne (Deborah Margaret Ryland Coyne, born 1955, Ottawa) is a Canadian lawyer, author and constitutional activist who opposed the Meech Lake and Charlottetown Accords, advised Clyde Wells, and ran for the 2012 Liberal leadership.
Deborah Doniach
Deborah Doniach, née Abileah (1912–2004), was a British clinical immunologist at the Middlesex Hospital in London who showed in 1956 that Hashimoto's thyroiditis is an autoimmune disease.
Deborah E. Powell
Deborah E. Powell, also known as Deborah Elizabeth Powell, was an American academic pathologist who served as Dean of the University of Minnesota Medical School from 2002 to 2009.
Deborah Eisenberg
Deborah Eisenberg (born 1945), American short story writer from Winnetka, Illinois, author of five collections including Twilight of the Superheroes and Your Duck Is My Duck; MacArthur Fellow (2009), PEN/Faulkner (2011), taught at Virginia and Columbia.
Deborah Estrin
Deborah Estrin, born 1959, is a computer scientist and Cornell Tech professor known for directed diffusion in wireless sensor networks, mobile health, and a 2018 MacArthur Fellowship.
Deborah Fass
Deborah Fass is a professor of chemical and structural biology at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, who studies disulfide bonding in protein folding.
Deborah Feldman
Deborah Feldman (born 1986) is a German-American memoirist raised in the Satmar Hasidic community of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Her 2012 memoir Unorthodox was a New York Times bestseller and inspired the 2020 Netflix miniseries; she lives in Berlin.
Deborah Findlay
Deborah Findlay is an English stage and screen actress born 1947 in Surrey. Known for Top Girls, the Olivier-winning Stanley, Tony-nominated The Children, and Ruth Defoe in The Split.
Deborah Foreman
Deborah Foreman (Deborah Lynn Foreman), American actress born 1962 in Montebello, California; star of Valley Girl (1983) as Julie Richman opposite Nicolas Cage, April Fool's Day (1986) dual lead, ShoWest Most Promising New Star 1986; retired from acting in 1991 to teach yoga and Pilates.
Deborah Frances-White
Deborah Frances-White is a London-based Australian-British comedian, author, screenwriter, and podcaster, best known as co-creator and host of the feminist comedy podcast The Guilty Feminist, launched in 2016.
Deborah G. Grady
Deborah G. Grady is an American physician and epidemiologist, Professor Emeritus at UC San Francisco, who led the HERS trial showing hormone therapy does not reduce heart disease.
Deborah Harkness
Deborah Harkness is an American historian of science and #1 New York Times bestselling author of the All Souls fantasy series, beginning with A Discovery of Witches (2011), also known for The Jewel House and the TV adaptation.