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Grenoble

American  
[gruh-noh-buhl, gruh-naw-bluh] / grəˈnoʊ bəl, grəˈnɔ blə /

noun

  1. a city in and the capital of Isère, in SE France.


Grenoble British  
/ ɡrəˈnəʊbəl, ɡrənɔblə /

noun

  1. a city in SE France, on the Isère River: university (1339). Pop: 153 317 (1999)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Schuss was created on an overnight deadline for the 1968 winter games in Grenoble, France.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2026

The Grenoble group analyzed strontium isotopes and trace elements in melt inclusions trapped inside 3.3-billion-year-old olivine crystals, providing rare geochemical snapshots of early Earth.

From Science Daily • Dec. 4, 2025

"The only way to avoid danger is to prepare for it," President Emmanuel Macron said while announcing the plan at an infantry base near Grenoble in south-east France.

From BBC • Nov. 27, 2025

The company also plans to open shops at Galeries Lafayette department stores in the cities of Dijon, Reims, Grenoble, Angers and Limoges.

From Barron's • Oct. 9, 2025

Ginoulhiac, the learned Bishop of Grenoble, who was to be preconised as Archbishop of Lyons on Monday the 21st, undertook on the 22d to meet the discreet concessions of the infallibilists in a kindred spirit.

From Letters From Rome on the Council by D?llinger, Johann Joseph Ignaz von

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