Renan
Americannoun
noun
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"There were more than 200 people taking the tour this morning. Seventy percent were foreign tourists," Renan Monteiro, from the tour operator Favela Turismo, told AFP.
From Barron's • Apr. 20, 2026
The French historian Ernest Renan identified the tension between a nation-state’s need for a legitimizing narrative and the often ugly truths of its actual past.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026
Renan Vieira, doctoral student at the U, is the first author.
From Science Daily • Oct. 19, 2025
An emotional Francis Ngannou marked his return to mixed martial arts with a first-round stoppage of Renan Ferreira at the PFL Super Fights event in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
From BBC • Oct. 19, 2024
No one can overestimate the evil that has been wrought 441 by Laplace, Humboldt, Darwin, Huxley, Haeckel, Renan, Emerson, Strauss, Bikhner, Tyndall, and their wretched followers.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 5 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions by Ingersoll, Robert Green
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