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rowen

American  
[rou-uhn] / ˈraʊ ən /

noun

  1. Chiefly Northern U.S.  the second crop of grass or hay in a season; aftermath.


rowen British  
/ ˈraʊən /

noun

  1. another word for aftermath

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Etymology

Origin of rowen

1300–50; Middle English reywayn < Old North French *rewain; cognate with French regain

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Dr. Tami Rowen, an obstetrician and gynecologist at the University of California, San Francisco, likened the transitional phase to a sputtering car: As the ovaries start to run out of eggs, they unpredictably spit out hormones.

From The Wall Street Journal

Symptoms can start long before your menstrual cycle changes, but a key shift lies in increasingly irregular periods, Rowen says.

From The Wall Street Journal

“Today’s proposed decision is clear — the judge found that Mr. Westcott could not prove anything other than he was of perfectly sound mind when he engaged in complex negotiations over several weeks with multiple parties to transact a lucrative sale of the property that netted him a substantial profit,” Perry’s attorney, Eric Rowen, said in a statement to People.

From Los Angeles Times

“The evidence shows that Mr. Westcott breached the contract for no other reason than he had changed his mind,” said Rowen.

From Los Angeles Times

Rowen Lee was shoveling sand from a pile on Palo Alto Avenue into bags, which she and her family then carried across the street to their Palo Alto house, which was flooded Saturday.

From Los Angeles Times