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Rasmussen

American  
[ras-moo-suhn] / ˈræs mʊ sən /

noun

  1. Knud Johan Victor 1879–1933, Danish Arctic explorer.


Rasmussen British  
/ ˈrasmusən /

noun

  1. Knud Johan Victor (knuð joˈhan ˈviktɔr). 1879–1933, Danish arctic explorer and ethnologist. He led several expeditions through the Arctic in support of his theory that the North American Indians were originally migrants from Asia

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Mr. Rasmussen makes Douglass’s conversion vivid and persuasive; Mr. Rebeiro exposes its jurisprudential machinery with impressive precision, even when that machinery clanks a little.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

Rasmussen didn’t exist back in the 1970s, but veteran polling company Gallup did.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 2026

Yet neither Mr. Rasmussen nor Mr. Rebeiro—and, for that matter, not even Douglass—settles the question with which we began.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

Like Rasmussen, she doesn’t use the proteinmaxxing label, but said, “I’ve never thought about protein this much in my life.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026

The Kobayashis—they’d planted a thousand dollars’ worth of rhubarb on five acres in Center Valley—negotiated an agreement with Torval Rasmussen to tend and harvest their crop.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

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