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Scharnhorst

American  
[shahrn-hawrst] / ˈʃɑrn hɔrst /

noun

  1. Gerhard Johann David von 1755–1813, Prussian general.


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As critic Gary Scharnhorst writes in an afterword to a recent edition of this classic: “The riposte to ‘it can’t happen here’ is ‘it already has.”

From Salon • May 17, 2025

“It hit so quick, it was incredible,” Kyle Scharnhorst said as he surveyed his damaged apartment complex.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 12, 2023

“It hit so quick, it was incredible,” Lahaina resident Kyle Scharnhorst said as he surveyed his apartment complex’s damage in the morning.

From Washington Times • Aug. 11, 2023

This charming son was to become a prolific writer, his biographer Scharnhorst reports, who “out-published his father by a ratio of more than twenty to one.”

From Slate • Jul. 27, 2019

When Frederick William III. agreed to furnish 20,000 troops to France, his best generals—Bl�cher, Scharnhorst, Gneisenau—and three hundred officers resigned.

From A History of Germany From the Earliest Times to the Present Day by Taylor, Bayard

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