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Zeist

American  
[zahyst] / zaɪst /

noun

  1. a city in the central Netherlands.


Zeist British  
/ zaɪst, zɛjst /

noun

  1. a city in the central Netherlands, near Utrecht. Pop: 60 000 (2003 est)

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More than 21 years after the verdict at Camp Zeist, Masud has appeared in the US District Court of the District of Columbia, accused of making the bomb that blew apart Pan Am 103.

From BBC Dec. 13, 2022

At a Scottish trial before a court at Camp Zeist in The Netherlands, Megrahi was found guilty of the bombing in 2001 and was jailed for life.

From Reuters Dec. 12, 2022

Hendrikus Johannes Witteveen was born in the town of Zeist, in the central Netherlands, on June 12, 1921.

From Washington Post May 1, 2019

After Heineken and the chauffeur were liberated, the Dutch police claimed to have found most of the ransom buried in a wooded area near the town of Zeist, thirty-five miles southeast of Amsterdam.

From The New Yorker Jul. 30, 2018

Brauws was now living at Zeist and he had collected his heap of books around him and lived there quietly, conquered, as he said.

From Dr. Adriaan by Couperus, Louis

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