Jacques
Americannoun
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I rotated through a greatest-hits lineup: Martha Stewart, Jacques Pépin, Samin Nosrat, Ina Garten, J. Kenji López-Alt — each one offering a slightly different path to the same reassuring conclusion: this is not that hard.
From Salon • Apr. 26, 2026
In Moerdijk, that dilemma is no longer abstract; it's immediate, and it is set to reshape the lives of Jaco, Andrea, Jacques and everyone living on the fault line of the green transition.
From BBC • Apr. 12, 2026
President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday welcomed two French nationals -- Cecile Kohler, 41, and Jacques Paris, 72 -- after they returned to Paris after spending more than three years imprisoned in Iran on espionage charges.
From Barron's • Apr. 8, 2026
French President Jacques Chirac, a strong opponent of the effort in Iraq, rebuked them for having “missed a great opportunity to shut up.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026
Though this would remain the son’s legal name until he was forty years old, Jacques began using an English version, John Houseman, when he was in his early twenties.
From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow
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