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Franz

American  
[franz, frants, frahnts] / frænz, frænts, frɑnts /

noun

  1. a male given name, German form of Frank.


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Askell excelled at math, read Franz Kafka, acted in plays, made sculptures, immersed herself in Scottish history books and hung out with what she calls “the nerd group” at school.

From The Wall Street Journal

Cut to 1986, when they planted this seed in a People magazine profile by Franz Lidz.

From Salon

Franz Kafka’s novella “The Metamorphosis” asks: What if, overnight, you became “a horrible vermin”—a creature among the most repellent ever to crawl the earth?

From The Wall Street Journal

Ex-Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone and Austrian ski legend Franz Klammer were keen onlookers as a crowd of thousands ringed the finish area.

From Barron's

Something like this happened when Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in 1914.

From The Wall Street Journal