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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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

McLean seniors Kara Bremser and Shushan Krikorian met at half court as the final seconds ticked down in the Highlanders’ 58-50 win over Langley in Friday’s Liberty District final at Yorktown.

From Washington Post • Feb. 17, 2023

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

From New York Times • Jun. 14, 2022

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

At last, however, Elam fell; its capital Shushan was sacked and burned, and a desolated country was added to the Assyrian dominions.

From A Primer of Assyriology by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)

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