Trent
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Ancient Tridentum. Italian Trento. a city in northern Italy, on the Adige River.
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Council of Trent, the ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church that met at Trent intermittently from 1545 to 1563, and that defined church doctrine and condemned the Reformation.
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a river in central England, rising in Staffordshire and flowing generally northeast into the Humber: the chief river of the Midlands. Length: 270 km (170 miles)
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Also: Trient. the German name for Trento
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None of the four — neither Trent Mosley, nor Kayden Dixon-Wyatt nor Tron Baker or Mark Bowman — had played in a college football game.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026
Cornwall's food waste is taken to a digester in Holsworthy, Devon, operated by Severn Trent Green Power.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
Senior political appointees at DOJ, including Stanley Woodward, the No. 3 official, and Trent McCotter, then an aide to the deputy attorney general, were keeping close tabs on the case, the people said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
At one point, in the third Test against New Zealand at Trent Bridge, Smith even stood up to the pacey Archer.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
They fought much more fiercely than Trent Bolger and Cyprian Cusumano, and I was shifting the balance of their vendetta by preventing Ali-Reza from scoring.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
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