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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 lowered its stake in the customer experience services provider to 2,773,667 shares.

From Barron's • May 8, 2026

This fact could make a toll more likely as an outcome of the cease-fire talks that are set to start this weekend, said Guntram Wolff, economics professor at Belgium’s Université Libre de Bruxelles.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026

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

Accoustremens de plumes, venuz des Indes, pr�sent�es de par l'Empereur a Madame a Bruxelles, le xxe jour d'Aoust xvcxxiii et aussi de par Monseigneur de la Chaulx, le tout estant en ladite librairie.

From The First Governess of the Netherlands, Margaret of Austria by Tremayne, Eleanor E.

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