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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

Physicists from Forschungszentrum Jülich and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology have uncovered that Josephson tunnel junctions -- the fundamental building blocks of superconducting quantum computers -- are more complex than previously thought.

From Science Daily Feb. 14, 2024

“It’s a bit like putting a pair of glasses on,” says Kathrin Valerius, a physicist at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany, who was not involved in the new study.

From Scientific American Jun. 29, 2023

Police in Karlsruhe had cordoned off the area in the central part of the city because the danger level was unclear, the police said on Twitter.

From Reuters Mar. 10, 2023

They paired off and traveled by train to Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Vienna, Freiburg, Saarbrücken, Mannheim, and Karlsruhe, where they mailed the leaflets from undisclosed locations.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

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