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Bruxelles

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

noun

  1. Brussels.


Bruxelles British  
/ brysɛl /

noun

  1. the French name for Brussels

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

“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

Bars.—These bars are worked upon point de Bruxelles edging, and are only applied to the inner part of a pattern, never being used as ground-work bars.

From The Art of Modern Lace Making by The Butterick Publishing Co.

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