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Arnhem

American  
[ahrn-hem, ahr-nuhm] / ˈɑrn hɛm, ˈɑr nəm /

noun

  1. a city in the central Netherlands, on the Rhine River: World War II battle 1944.


Arnhem British  
/ ˈɑːnəm /

noun

  1. a city in the E Netherlands, capital of Gelderland province, on the Rhine: site of a World War II battle. Pop: 142 000 (2003 est)

"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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“The silence was deafening,” said Alastair King, the head of the Arnhem Land Progress Aboriginal Corporation, or A.L.P.A., a nonprofit organization that operates the Lajamanu store and others in remote communities.

From New York Times • May 10, 2024

The station is also well situated to collect signals intelligence over Australia and New Zealand and telemetry data on rockets launched from Australia's new Arnhem Space Centre, it said.

From Reuters • Nov. 1, 2023

Since making his Blues debut in 2019 - following successful loan spells in the Netherlands with Vitesse Arnhem and the Championship with Derby - Mount has amassed 195 appearances for the club, scoring 33 goals.

From BBC • Jun. 23, 2023

They depict stars as well as a particular river in Arnhem Land, or perhaps stars reflected in that river.

From Washington Post • Feb. 14, 2023

I hinted as distantly as I could, that he had motored back to Arnhem a trifle too soon.

From The Further Adventures of O'Neill in Holland by Brown, J. Irwin

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