Riis
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Riis exposed Lower East Side slum conditions in tenement photographs that would form the basis for his renowned book, “How the Other Half Lives.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2025
"Sarah's findings change our basic understanding and send us back to the drawing board in relation to some of the key mechanisms at play," adds Jesper Riis Christiansen.
From Science Daily • Feb. 29, 2024
They work a short corner inside the opening minute and Alan Browne swings over a deep cross to the far post, where Emil Riis heads home.
From BBC • Feb. 22, 2024
The 25-year-old Vingegaard became the first Danish rider to win cycling’s biggest race since Bjarne Riis in 1996.
From Washington Times • Jul. 24, 2022
Jacob Riis, the New York journalist who had devoted himself to revealing the squalid housing of America’s poor, came to Chicago bearing counsel of a graver sort.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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