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Duane

American  
[dweyn, doo-eyn] / dweɪn, duˈeɪn /

noun

  1. a male given name.


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Duane Chapman, best known for his long-running A&E reality show “Dog the Bounty Hunter,” married Francie Chapman two years after wife Beth Chapman died in 2021 following a battle with cancer.

From Los Angeles Times

“You’re going to hear nostalgia about this, but I think it’s very logical and probably something the company should have done years ago,” said Duane Pfennigwerth, a global airlines analyst at Evercore, when the company announced the seating change in 2024.

From Los Angeles Times

Together, the data offer a broad look at how genes interact, fold, and shift positions as cells carry out their normal functions and divide, said co-corresponding author Feng Yue, the Duane and Susan Burnham Professor of Molecular Medicine in the department of biochemistry and molecular genetics at Northwestern.

From Science Daily

Tech companies including Microsoft, Meta and Google have been driving the revival of nuclear energy in the U.S., including a deal to restart Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island, the site of the worst nuclear power disaster in the country; a deal to buy power from the Clinton Clean Energy Center, an already operating nuclear plant in Illinois; and a plan to reopen the Duane Arnold Energy Center, a nuclear plant in Iowa that was closed after damage from a windstorm.

From The Wall Street Journal

She had a small Duane Reade bag in her hand and at once began rummaging through it.

From Literature