Arlen
Americannoun
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Harold Hymen Arluck, 1905–1986, U.S. songwriter.
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Michael Dikran Kouyoumdjian, 1895–1956, English novelist, born in Bulgaria.
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a first name.
Example Sentences
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Following the defection of Pennsylvania’s Arlen Specter in 2009, Minority Leader McConnell presided over a Republican Conference of only 40 senators—the smallest GOP caucus in 30 years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
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, according to Rolling Stone.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 19, 2023
On January 10, 1878, Senator Arlen A. Sargent of California proposed a sixteenth amendment to the Constitution.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
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