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Oken

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[oh-kuhn] / ˈoʊ kən /

noun

  1. Lorenz Lorenz Ockenfuss, 1779–1851, German naturalist and philosopher.


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Attorney Lindsey Oken told the jury as the trial got under way in Brooklyn federal court.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026

"Current evidence shows that the benefits of maternal consumption of low-mercury fish, or in its place, omega-3 supplements, outweigh any potential risks," says Dr. Oken.

From Science Daily • Mar. 1, 2024

According to the arrest notice for Oken Mahmet, a 51-year-old Kazakh imam from Qaba in Xinjiang, Mahmet was charged with "propagating extremism".

From BBC • May 12, 2021

Oken, who called the project “the biggest missed opportunity of my professional life,” blames himself for that ill-advised creative marriage and the rocky path that followed.

From New York Times • Apr. 7, 2020

With him Oken, the great naturalist, and Corres, the pamphleteer, became exiles in Switzerland.

From A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) by Emerson, Edwin