Agen

British

/ aʒɑ̃ /

noun

a market town in SW France, on the Garonne river. Pop: 30 170 (1999)

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“Our message is invest—invest heavily,” said Jarrod Agen, executive director of the National Energy Dominance Council.

From The Wall Street Journal

The fool's speech ends with the chant: "Hoose agen hoose, toon agen toon, if a man meets a man knock 'im doon, but doan't 'ot 'im,"

From BBC

BFM-TV images from Agen, in southwest France, showed a supermarket being showered with a thick jet of pig slurry.

From Seattle Times

Indictments were also thrown out against Snyder’s former chief of staff, Jarrod Agen; another key aide, Rich Baird; former Flint Managers Gerald Ambrose and Darnell Earley; former city Public Works Director Howard Croft; and former health official Nancy Peeler.

From Seattle Times

The prosecutor in Agen, southern France, told reporters on Saturday that when police went to arrest the man at his flat in the southern city of Marmande, he said, “I know why you are here” and confessed.

From Reuters

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