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Caen

[kahn, kahn]

noun

  1. a city and the capital of Calvados, in NW France, SW of Le Havre: many Norman buildings destroyed 1944.



Caen

/ kɑ̃, kɒŋ /

noun

  1. an industrial city in NW France. Pop: 113 987 (1999)

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France, beaten finalists last year, are on the back foot ahead of Tuesday's second leg at home in Caen after Bruhl's decisive intervention in the 79th minute.

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Laurent Glaize, a former head of youth recruitment at Caen, spent three years tracking a young Kylian and became close to the Mbappe family during that time.

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That’s why the infamous newspaper columnist Herb Caen dubbed it “Baghdad by the Bay” more than 80 years ago, when the town had already fully embraced its outsider status.

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"The initial narrative has proven a bit of a red herring," said Mill Pond Research's Caen.

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"It's a good way to use the model without being concerned about what it's exfiltrating" to China, said Christopher Caen, CEO of Mill Pond Research.

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