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Shushan

American  
[shoo-shan, -shahn] / ˈʃu ʃæn, -ʃɑn /

noun

  1. Biblical name of Susa.


Shushan British  
/ ˈʃuːʃæn /

noun

  1. the Biblical name for Susa

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Subsidies are available based on household income, says Sheryl Shushan, Patagonia’s director of global family services.

From Seattle Times ● May 20, 2024

The cause was cancer, said Avi Shushan, a spokesman for the hospital.

From New York Times ● Jun. 14, 2022

“Many Haredim are cut off from the digital world,” said Esty Shushan, a Haredi activist and chief executive of Nivcharot, a movement working for women’s rights in her Orthodox community.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 31, 2020

Its terminal was designed by the same architect Long had used to build a new Louisiana state capitol and a new governor’s mansion, and it was originally named for one of Long’s cronies, Abraham Shushan.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 25, 2019

Now mark, it meant a good deal for Nehemiah to give up the palace of Shushan and his high office, and identify himself with the despised and captive Jews.

From Men of the Bible by Dwight Lyman Moody

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