Eugene
noun
a city in W Oregon.
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Eugene
1 American
[yoo-jeen, yoo-jeen]
/ juˈdʒin, ˈju dʒin /
noun
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a city in W Oregon.
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a male given name: from a Greek word meaning “wellborn.”
Eugène
2
American
[œ -zhen]
/ œˈʒɛn /
noun
Eugène
British
/ øʒɛn /
noun
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At Eugene Henaff, one-third of meals served fall into the lowest-income bracket, with families paying 20 or 50 cents and the Ile-de-France region covering the rest, the region said, noting that no subsidies were pending.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
Eugene Tenenbaum, a former director of Chelsea Football Club, helped to manage the billionaire's wealth at the time of the case in 2008, which Abramovich won.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
It was third-and-long, midway through the second quarter last November in Eugene, Ore. USC was down just a score, and Maiava, the Trojans’ big-armed quarterback, was trying to make something happen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
It is a mosaic of subcultures: fishermen in coastal towns, hipsters in Portland, hippies in Eugene, hikers in Bend, farmers in the Willamette Valley, loggers in timber towns and cowboys in Eastern Oregon’s high desert.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Culver’s spring wagon and the racing car piloted by Eugene Hammond of Terre Haute.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
Eugène Ionesco’s play, currently running at American Repertory Theater, has the two actors sparring over ideas of alienation and belonging amid the outbreak of a metamorphic disorder.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
Eugène Ionesco’s “Exit the King,” now in revival at A Noise Within under the direction of Michael Michetti, revolves around a centuries-old king whose health is in as dire a state as his kingdom.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026
Its replacement, which burned down five years ago, was put up decades later as part of a neo-Gothic reconstruction conducted by architect Eugène Viollet-Le-Duc.
From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2024
In the living area, which sits on a platform above the kitchen and dining room, hangs a still life of fish and sea urchins by the Provençal painter Eugène Baboulène.
From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2024
A domestic grief visited the poet in the following year, when his brother Eugène died.
From Victor Hugo: His Life and Works by G. Barnett Smith
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