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Cullen

American  
[kuhl-uhn] / ˈkʌl ən /

noun

  1. Countee 1903–46, U.S. poet.


Cullen British  
/ ˈkʌlən /

noun

  1. William Douglas , Baron. born 1935, Scottish judge who conducted public inquiries into the Piper Alpha disaster (1990), the Dunblane school shootings (1996), and the Ladbroke Grove rail disaster (1999); led the tribunal which turned down the appeal (2002) of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi against his conviction for the 1988 Lockerbie bombing

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With the dangerous Daniel James, scorer of Wales' spectacular long-range goal, and David Brooks taken off, their replacements Liam Cullen and Mark Harris struggled to influence the game.

From BBC

“I don’t think anyone is factoring in a long term, sustained dragged out inflationary battle, but Iran creates these pockets of uncertainty that make it very difficult to deploy into risk assets when you don’t know what’s next,” said Cullen Rogers, chief investment officer at Wedbush Fund Advisers.

From Barron's

“Everybody has tons of questions,” said Cullen Rogers, chief investment officer at Wedbush Fund Advisers.

From The Wall Street Journal

The study was led by the University of Minnesota's Katie Cullen MD, and the imaging method used to measure ATP production in the brain was developed by Professors Xiao Hong Zhu and Wei Chen.

From Science Daily

The performances are first-rate; Claire and Pete, for instance, are imbued by Ms. Richards and Mr. Cullen with a distinctly unstable chemistry.

From The Wall Street Journal