Riis
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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The feeling from the fanbase is that the supply line to the forwards could do with supplementing as well as a replacement for the departed Emil Riis.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2025
His research experience as a sociologist had led him to the pioneering photographs of Jacob Riis, a police reporter for the New York Tribune.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 5, 2025
Jesper Riis Christiansen believes that the findings demand vigilance.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 29, 2024
One fall morning at Union High School in Grand Rapids, Carolina listened to Mr. Angstman lecture on the journalist Jacob Riis and the Progressive Era movement that helped create federal child labor laws.
From New York Times ● Feb. 25, 2023
At the time of Riis’s talk, Riis and Addams were two of the best known people in America.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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