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Genève

American  
[zhuh-nev] / ʒəˈnɛv /

noun

  1. French name of Geneva.


Genève British  
/ ʒənɛv /

noun

  1. the French name for Geneva

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Pharmaceutical billionaire Ernesto Bertarelli and two-time Olympic champion Hans Peter Steinacher announced the launch of the new Alinghi Red Bull Racing on Tuesday at the sponsoring yacht club Société Nautique de Genève.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 14, 2021

This co-production of Dutch National Opera, Grand Théâtre de Genève and Valencia’s Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia tries to fuse two wildly different worlds together.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2021

The Grand Théâtre de Genève, meanwhile, has just closed a new version by the choreographer Jeroen Verbruggen that reimagined the story as a struggle between a young protagonist and the evil character Drosselmeyer.

From New York Times ● Dec. 12, 2014

The movement, an automatic Dubois-Dépraz 9000, is decorated with circular graining on the bridges and a snailed côtes de Genève motif on the rotor.

From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2013

Presently, however, before I had time to lay my hand on the object of my search, he silently offered me the Journal de Genève.

From Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales by Henry James

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