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Duane

American  
[dweyn, doo-eyn] / dweɪn, duˈeɪn /

noun

  1. a male given name.


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After Duane Roberts died at 88 in November, Riverside buzzed with questions over the fate of the hotel, prompting another Roberts family lawyer to offer public assurances.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026

He maintained that when Duane Roberts bought the hotel, “he bought every single item. Every single item was the Roberts family’s personal property.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026

Olive Young is as if “Sephora and Duane Reade had a really cool baby,” said Emily Montague, an aesthetician in Los Angeles who’s visited its locations in Seoul.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

Duane found a team at The University of Kansas Health System about four hours away.

From Salon • May 27, 2026

Since making his acquaintance, Duane had soon realized that spending hours studying himself was the musk ox’s favorite activity.

From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el

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