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Weser

American  
[vey-zer] / ˈveɪ zər /

noun

  1. a river in Germany, flowing N from S Lower Saxony into the North Sea. About 300 miles (485 km) long.


Weser British  
/ ˈveːzər /

noun

  1. a river in NW Germany: flows northwest to the North Sea at Bremerhaven and is linked by the Mittelland Canal to the Ems, Rhine, and Elbe waterways. Length: 477 km (196 miles)

"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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Areas in the Weser river basin, that was only mildly affected in 1993, for example, would have experienced floods greater than the 100-year flood.

From Science Daily • Mar. 27, 2024

In Germany, PreussenElektra, the nuclear unit of utility E.ON, said it would take its Grohnde reactor offline on Friday due to high temperatures in the Weser river.

From Reuters • Jul. 25, 2019

Almost immediately, Budweiser’s head of marketing Lisa Weser tweeted that she and her colleagues were as happy as Jerry, Elaine and George doing the Seinfeld celebration dance.

From The Guardian • Feb. 8, 2016

Weser shot back about Gidick’s Instagram account, which features an image of a man cradling a baby seal and has 123,000 followers:

From Washington Post • Apr. 29, 2015

Unfortunately, he had gone 15 miles when he came to the junction of the Weser, and so to a stretch of river over which a guild of boatmen held a monopoly.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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