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Arlen

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[ahr-luhn] / ˈɑr lən /

noun

  1. Harold Hymen Arluck, 1905–1986, U.S. songwriter.

  2. Michael Dikran Kouyoumdjian, 1895–1956, English novelist, born in Bulgaria.

  3. a first name.


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In the 1999 fantasy drama The Green Mile, Greene played Arlen Bitterbuck, a Native American man on death row in prison.

From BBC • Sep. 1, 2025

Recently at the Soraya, the inquisitive young pianist Conrad Tao celebrated the Rachmaninoff anniversary by combining him with Billy Strayhorn, Stephen Sondheim, Irving Berlin and Harold Arlen.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2023

Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania while studying political science at Stanford University in 2003.

From Washington Times • Mar. 14, 2023

It has been more than a decade since the last Senate party switch, when Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter left the Republican Party to join the Democrats in 2009.

From Salon • Dec. 9, 2022

On January 10, 1878, Senator Arlen A. Sargent of California proposed a sixteenth amendment to the Constitution.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling