Jacques
Americannoun
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I rotated through a greatest-hits lineup: Martha Stewart, Jacques Pépin, Samin Nosrat, Ina Garten, J. Kenji López-Alt — each one offering a slightly different path to the same reassuring conclusion: this is not that hard.
From Salon • Apr. 26, 2026
Jacques, a 71-year-old retired engineer, stands outside his eco-friendly home on the edge of Moerdijk, built in the mid 1990s on what was once farmland.
From BBC • Apr. 12, 2026
Jacques Moretti was due to be questioned again on Tuesday but the hearing was postponed indefinitely on medical grounds.
From Barron's • Apr. 8, 2026
French President Jacques Chirac, a strong opponent of the effort in Iraq, rebuked them for having “missed a great opportunity to shut up.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026
The relentless ogive of growth fascinated Jacques Monod, the French biologist.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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