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Eugène

1

[œ-zhen]

noun

  1. Prince François Eugène de Savoie-Carignan, 1663–1736, Austrian general, born in France.



Eugene

2

[yoo-jeen, yoo-jeen]

noun

  1. a city in W Oregon.

  2. a male given name: from a Greek word meaning “wellborn.”

Eugène

/ øʒɛn /

noun

  1. Prince, title of François Eugène de Savoie-Carignan. 1663–1736, Austrian general, born in France: with Marlborough defeated the French at Blenheim (1704), Oudenaarde (1708), and Malplaquet (1709)

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"Pesticides and herbicides are designed to alter biological systems," said Eugene Lengerich, emeritus professor of public health sciences at Penn State and senior author on the paper.

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Well, nobody’s laughing now, after the actual mayor-elect began his speech by quoting Eugene V. Debs, the legendary Socialist Party hero who ran for president five times, getting nearly a million votes in 1912.

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It makes you think of Eugene O’Neill, who said that he learned most of what he learned about the theater in his youthful days around his father’s company.

Eugene Volokh, a 1st Amendment professor and senior fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, said the county will have to be careful in defining what conduct is “predatory” and what is protected speech.

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