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Bruxelles

American  
[bry-sel, bryk-] / brüˈsɛl, brük- /

noun

  1. Brussels.


Bruxelles British  
/ brysɛl /

noun

  1. the French name for Brussels

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Groupe Bruxelles Lambert did so through the sale of six million Concentrix shares on April 29 in a block trade pursuant to Rule 144 at a price of $22.25 per share.

From Barron's May 8, 2026

“Defense spending is so big that it would really be a major game-changer in terms of basic and military-applied research,” said Guntram Wolff, professor of economics at Université Libre de Bruxelles.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 20, 2025

He shared the samples with Cem Berk Senel, a paleoclimate modeling researcher at the Royal Observatory of Belgium who was then a graduate student at Université Libre de Bruxelles.

From New York Times Oct. 30, 2023

Co-author Pierre Gaspard at the Université Libre de Bruxelles developed a reaction scheme and theoretically imposedperiodically changing temperatures to replicate the experimental rates and selectivities of the reaction.

From Science Daily Oct. 5, 2023

Young Castlewood came flying back from Bruxelles, as soon as he heard that righting was to begin; and the arrival of the Chevalier de St. George was announced about May.

From Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by George Saintsbury

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