Hans

[ hanz; German hahns ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

Hans was convinced that he had transmitted his thoughts of mortal fear to his sister — somehow.

On that same day, his sister, far away, got a bad feeling about Hans.

Clever Hans, as he was known, could seemingly perform all sorts of tricks previously limited to humans.

The problem was Clever Hans wasn’t really doing any of these things.

If the questioner stood too far away, Hans would lose his abilities.

In Orzysz, visiting German General Hans-Lothar Domröse admitted that Ukraine is testing NATO.

Terrified the family would be exposed as Jews, she rushed to the photographer, Hans Ballin.

German Hans Zollner leads the Centre for Child Protection at the Institute of Psychology of the Pontifical Gregorian University.

I was just improvising the scene where Anna first meets Hans.

Recent years have turned up such greats as Richard Yates, Paula Fox, Henry Roth, Hans Fallada, and Renata Adler.

Liszt gazed at "his Hans," as he calls him, with the fondest pride, and seemed perfectly happy over his arrival.

"Dad and Hans Rutter, as you know, weren't the sort of men to sit around and mourn over anything like that," she laughed.

He simply said that Hans died after telling us that they had been attacked, and that the gold was hidden at Writing-Stone.

Hans Fennefos entered, saluted Sarah, and at the same time inquired for whom the armchair was placed by her side.

"Thanks, Hans Nilsen," answered Sarah, without looking up from her work.

April 21, 2024absquatulate

[ab-skwoch-uh-leyt ]

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