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Nanterre

American  
[nahn-ter] / nɑ̃ˈtɛr /

noun

  1. a city in and the capital of Hauts-de-Seine, in N France: W suburb of Paris.


Nanterre British  
/ nɑ̃ˈtɛr /

noun

  1. a town in N France, on the Seine: an industrial suburb of Paris. Pop: 84 281 (1999)

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Its report said Nintendo had "commented only in 2020, and not as soon as it was aware of the malfunctions", the Commerce Ministry and the court in Nanterre, outside Paris, said in a statement.

From Barron's Jun. 8, 2026

Dr. Corentin Gosling, Associate Professor at Paris Nanterre University and the study's first lead author, emphasizes the real-world consequences of unclear or misleading information.

From Science Daily Feb. 10, 2026

The son of a Hungarian immigrant father and a Jewish mother, Sarkozy studied law at a public university in the Parisian suburb of Nanterre.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 21, 2025

Prisons in Toulon, Aix-En-Provence, Marseille, Valence and Nîmes in southern France, and in Villepinte and Nanterre, near Paris were among those targeted.

From BBC Apr. 28, 2025

The feeling was due perhaps to the melancholy landscape, the vast, desolate plain that stretches from Nanterre to Saint-Cloud, broken only by an occasional clump of trees or the smoke from some factory chimney.

From The Nabob, Volume 1 by Ives, George Burnham

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