Deventer
Americannoun
noun
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Dutch puzzle maker Oskar van Deventer even invented a set of seven six-sided dice that allow for three players in Buffett’s game.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 19, 2023
American forward Djordje Mihailovic scored his first goal in the Dutch Eredivisie, helping AZ Alkmaar to a 4-1 win at Go Ahead Eagles on Wednesday night in Deventer, Netherlands.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 25, 2023
On a visit to a farm near the Dutch city of Deventer, party leader Caroline van der Plas expressed concern about the increasingly toxic nature of the debate.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2022
Large, in-person conferences originally scheduled for 2020 and the first half of 2021 have “mostly” been pushed to 2022, said Paul Van Deventer, president and chief executive of the group.
From New York Times ● Aug. 9, 2021
The pariah pion or outcast usher, a most unhappy out-at-elbows youth, was expected to keep us all under his eye, but we saw to it early that that eye passed leniently over Deventer and myself.
From A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
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