Leiden
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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The Leiden University Medical Centre in the Netherlands later announced another patient had tested positive.
From Barron's ● May 7, 2026
Geerten Boogaard, professor of local government at Leiden University, says Moerdijk highlights the way political power is distributed in the Dutch system.
From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2026
His comedy career has often incorporated his lived experience with a rare blood-clotting disease called Factor V Leiden that almost killed him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2026
“What we’re talking about is a much older, evolutionary, more animalistic way of understanding the social world,” says Dr. Eliska Prochazkova, a postdoctoral researcher at the Cognitive Psychology Unit of Leiden University in the Netherlands.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026
During a European sojourn, he surprised a colloquium at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands by delivering a lecture in Dutch, which he had taught himself.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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