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Karlsruhe

American  
[kahrls-roo-uh, kahrlz-roo-uh] / ˈkɑrlsˌru ə, ˈkɑrlzˌru ə /

noun

  1. a city in SW Germany: capital of the former state of Baden.


Karlsruhe British  
/ ˈkarlsruːə /

noun

  1. a city in SW Germany, in Baden-Württemberg: capital of the former Baden state. Pop: 282 595 (2003 est)

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A short-lived decline in inflation that takes it below target is unlikely to prompt action by the European Central Bank, Bundesbank President Joachim Nagel said in a speech at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 9, 2026

"Central Europe is very crowded and we don't have many places where there is enough space for larger animals." says Dr Marco Roller from Karlsruhe zoo, who manages the enclosure.

From BBC May 1, 2025

An explicit model constructed by the groups of Joerg Schmalian and Markus Garst at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology was crucial to unravelling the detective story, as were results from complementary experiments published in 2022.

From Science Daily Oct. 26, 2023

Alfaview, based in Karlsruhe in south-western Germany and with a 500-strong workforce, said it had filed a similar complaint to the European Commission.

From Reuters Jul. 20, 2023

Because chemistry was so slow to get organized, news of Avogadro’s important breakthrough of 1811 didn’t begin to become general until the first international chemistry congress, in Karlsruhe, in 1860.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

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