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Argonne

British  
/ ˈɑːɡɒn, arɡɔn /

noun

  1. a wooded region of NE France: scene of major battles in both World Wars

"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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But it has an advantage in this new field of computing owing to its longtime quantum-physics and engineering prowess at the University of Chicago, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Argonne National Laboratory and Fermilab.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026

Once part of Brinker International, On the Border was sold to Golden Gate Capital in 2010 and Argonne Capital Group in 2014.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026

Continuing that tradition, Zhang and his colleagues were granted access to two of the world's most powerful supercomputers, Frontier at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Aurora at Argonne National Laboratory.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 22, 2025

Samuel Clark and Kamel Fezzaa from Argonne National Laboratory also collaborated on this project.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 22, 2024

“On arriving at our new positions in the Argonne Forest, we found out that...the fighting at this point must have been terrific,” recalled Private McGuire, an American artilleryman.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman

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