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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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Years of deadlock and sanctions followed, until the involvement of Nelson Mandela and a UN-brokered deal led to a trial in a Scottish court at Camp Zeist, a former US airbase in the Netherlands.

From BBC • Dec. 15, 2023

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

For instance, take diagnosis: the Sino-Dutch Centre for Preventive and Personalized Medicine in Zeist, the Netherlands, has conducted several studies that attempt to unify Eastern and Western diagnostic principles.

From Nature • Dec. 21, 2011

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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