Essen

American

[es-uhn] / ˈɛs ən /

noun

a city in W Germany: the chief city of the Ruhr River valley.

Essen British

/ ˈɛsən /

noun

a city in W Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia: the leading administrative centre of the Ruhr; university. Pop: 589 499 (2003 est)

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Beyond airports, Verdi has also called for strikes in waste collection across several German cities, including Berlin, Essen and Kiel, where bins have gone unemptied since last week.

From BBC • Mar. 10, 2025

This is the “good price” offered by two small-boat smugglers to an undercover BBC journalist in Essen - a western German city where many migrants live or pass through.

From BBC • Oct. 25, 2024

To explore these questions, researchers from the Social Brain Lab at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience and the University Hospital Essen conducted a large-scale analysis of studies exploring touch interventions.

From Science Daily • Apr. 8, 2024

In 2010 artists transformed a pylon in Essen, Germany:

From BBC • Nov. 20, 2023

Five days after he returns from Essen, the letter is hand-delivered to Children’s House.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

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