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Recklinghausen

American  
[rek-ling-hou-zuhn] / ˈrɛk lɪŋˌhaʊ zən /

noun

  1. a city in NW Rhine-Westphalia, in Germany.


Recklinghausen British  
/ rɛklɪŋˈhauzən /

noun

  1. an industrial city in NW Germany, in North Rhine-Westphalia on the N edge of the Ruhr. Pop: 123 144 (2003 est)

"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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Recklinghausen police declined to say how many people were injured or if any had died.

From Reuters • Feb. 2, 2023

German investigators said that they had raided an apartment at a shelter for asylum-seekers in Recklinghausen, in the west of the country.

From The Guardian • Jan. 10, 2016

He had an apartment in an accommodation center for asylum seekers in Recklinghausen, north of Cologne, where he had painted the symbol of Islamic state on the wall of two rooms.

From Reuters • Jan. 10, 2016

The Allies—France and Belgium—swooped down upon unsuspecting Germans at Essen, Recklinghausen, Dortmund and dragged away 1,700,000,000,000 marks.

From Time Magazine Archive

Recklinghausen regards a hyaline substance, hyalin, as a normal constituent of cell-protoplasm which escapes in drops when the cell dies.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

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