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Lemberg

American  
[lem-burg, lem-berk] / ˈlɛm bɜrg, ˈlɛmˌbɛrk /

noun

  1. the German name of Lviv.


Lemberg British  
/ ˈlɛmbɛrk /

noun

  1. the German name for Lvov

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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"Glutamine is a building block for proteins and many other large molecules that cancer cells need to grow, proliferate, survive and potentially spread," Lemberg says.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 1, 2023

The name may evoke a stinky cheese, but it’s actually a German name denoting the Austrian town of Lemberg, from where the variety was exported to Germany.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 5, 2023

Lviv was called Lemberg then and was a city of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, home to a cosmopolitan mix of Poles, Ukrainians, Russians and other nationalities from across the empire.

From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2022

Both men and Sands’s maternal grandfather hailed from Lemberg — now Lviv, in Ukraine — and all had relatives slaughtered in the Holocaust.

From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2021

The appeal was on its way to the upper court at Lemberg before Taras and his servant had reached their upland home.

From For the Right by Karl Emil Franzos

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