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Ziska

American  
[tsis-kah] / ˈtsɪs kɑ /

noun

  1. Johann Žižka, Jan.


Ziska British  
/ ˈzɪskə, ˈʒiʃka /

noun

  1. Jan (jan). ?1370–1424, Bohemian soldier, who successfully led the Hussite rebellion (1420–24) against emperor Sigismund

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The hope is that more countries will follow, though there is no “one-size-fits-all,” said Lewis H. Ziska, a professor of environmental health sciences at Columbia University.

From Seattle Times Apr. 22, 2024

“We are in a fundamentally different moment,” said Lewis H. Ziska, a professor of environmental health sciences at Columbia University.

From Seattle Times May 21, 2023

“They know this is an expectation because their professors put it out there,” says Kristin Ziska Strange, UA’s assistant director of technology and innovation.

From The Verge Apr. 29, 2020

When I asked Poul Andrias Ziska, a twenty-eight-year-old chef and a native of Tórshavn, why his countrymen rejected so much of the bounty of the North Atlantic, he spoke of social class.

From The New Yorker Jun. 11, 2018

About the beginning of the sixteenth century Luther and Jerome, of Prague, inaugurated the great Reformation in Germany, Ziska was at work in Hungary, Zwinglius in Switzerland.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 4 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures by Ingersoll, Robert Green

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