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Aten

British  
/ ˈɑːtən /

noun

  1. (in ancient Egypt) the solar disc worshipped as the sole god in the reign of Akhenaten

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The board this week ultimately approved the lot merger with a 4-1 vote, combining several parcels of land on the corner of Clark and Aten roads where the proposed center would be built.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 11, 2026

David M. Aten, the IRS’s human capital officer, also defended the old program’s decision-making, saying employees who didn’t meet “basic elements” of the suggestion process weren’t going to be heard through that process.

From Washington Times Apr. 3, 2023

New evidence about Akhenaten’s religious revolution and Tutankhamun’s counterrevolution is also emerging from Hawass’s excavations at The Dazzling Aten.

From Scientific American Nov. 4, 2022

The 18th-dynasty pharaoh rejected Amun, Osiris and Egypt’s traditional gods in favor of a single disembodied creator-essence, Aten, or the sun disk.

From New York Times Oct. 30, 2022

They don’t have missile-weapons here, and Aten will know the range of their electric-charge outfits.”

From The Fifth-Dimension Tube by Leinster, Murray

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