Étienne
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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I agree with French philosopher Etienne Balibar, who cautioned that to confront violence with more violence becomes a death trap for the left.
From Salon
His mother Etienne Almeida, meanwhile, works in education and has always demanded responsibility on and off the pitch.
From BBC
"An intelligent student becomes an intelligent player. Ivo looked after what happened inside the white lines. Etienne, outside them. The family has always been very present and very clear-headed."
From BBC
She shines as a cultural historian, with enthralling tales of botanic gardens and early zoos, along with such notables as Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Georges Cuvier and of course Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, chevalier de Lamarck, “through whose life flowed all the Shakespearean currents of tragedy, comedy, and history: hardship, struggle, and frustration, resolution and intense creativity, love and farce and solitude.”
“The path of least resistance is for them to do nothing,” said Étienne Bordeleau-Labrecque, vice president at asset manager Ninepoint Partners and a former Bank of Canada analyst.
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