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Caen

American

[kahn, kahn] / kɑn, kɑ̃ /

noun

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

Caen British

/ kɑ̃, kɒŋ /

noun

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

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“Distillation is sort of like fighting over who gets to fill the tank with whose gas — but the real battle is over who gets to be the engine,” Caen said.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 28, 2026

Caen, who have won four of their past 15 games, fired the previous coach Maxime d'Ornano earlier Monday.

From Barron's • Dec. 29, 2025

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.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 18, 2025

"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.

From BBC • Aug. 9, 2025

And his wild stories had already acquired him the nickname in his home town of Caen of ‘honest Georges’.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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