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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

Along with the scientists from Heidelberg and Karlsruhe, researchers from Berlin, Hohenheim, and Mannheim participated in the investigations.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 17, 2024

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

“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

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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