Eugene
1 Americannoun
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a city in W Oregon.
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a male given name: from a Greek word meaning “wellborn.”
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But his frustrations are shared by his teachers, including Fatoumata Danso, 30, who has taught economic and social sciences at the Eugene Henaff high school for five years.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
During the 14-day mission the Apollo 17 astronauts, led by mission commander Eugene Cernan, performed three space walks on the lunar surface.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
On its coal-dust-begrimed surface, Eugene O’Neill’s 1922 play “The Hairy Ape” is a stark, dramatically propulsive illustration of how brutal, underpaid manual labor can dehumanize and destroy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
It was third-and-long, midway through the second quarter last November in Eugene, Ore. USC was down just a score, and Maiava, the Trojans’ big-armed quarterback, was trying to make something happen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
Besides, Eugene wasn’t even Eugene anymore except to his mother and the teachers.
From "The Best School Year Ever" by Barbara Robinson
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Eugène Ionesco’s “Exit the King,” now in revival at A Noise Within under the direction of Michael Michetti, revolves around a centuries-old king whose health is in as dire a state as his kingdom.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026
It will lose even more of it when six of Eugène Viollet-le-Duc’s stained-glass windows are replaced.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 3, 2025
According to the gallery, Riley's inspiration for the exhibition title came from a letter from Claude Monet to fellow French painter Eugène Boudin.
From BBC ● Nov. 22, 2025
There are echoes of the French master Eugène Atget, with his uncanny shop windows, and the Surrealists who distorted their pictures.
From New York Times ● May 2, 2024
During all that time her industry never flagged, and she was much indebted to the friendly interest which Eugène Carrière took in her work.
From Women Painters of the World From the Time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the Present Day by Walter Shaw Sparrow
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