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Essen

American  
[es-uhn] / ˈɛs ən /

noun

  1. a city in W Germany: the chief city of the Ruhr River valley.


Essen British  
/ ˈɛsən /

noun

  1. a city in W Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia: the leading administrative centre of the Ruhr; university. Pop: 589 499 (2003 est)

"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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Evonik, which is headquartered in the western city of Essen and makes a range of specialised chemicals, said the cuts were aimed at advancing the company's transformation.

From Barron's Jun. 18, 2026

Our undercover reporter is waiting outside the central station in the city of Essen.

From BBC Oct. 25, 2024

To explore these questions, researchers from the Social Brain Lab at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience and the University Hospital Essen conducted a large-scale analysis of studies exploring touch interventions.

From Science Daily Apr. 8, 2024

In 2010 artists transformed a pylon in Essen, Germany:

From BBC Nov. 20, 2023

Werner Pfennig grows up three hundred miles northeast of Paris in a place called Zollverein: a four-thousand-acre coal- mining complex outside Essen, Germany.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

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