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Arlen

American  
[ahr-luhn] / ˈɑr lən /

noun

  1. Harold Hymen Arluck, 1905–1986, U.S. songwriter.

  2. Michael Dikran Kouyoumdjian, 1895–1956, English novelist, born in Bulgaria.

  3. a first name.


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In the 1999 fantasy drama The Green Mile, Greene played Arlen Bitterbuck, a Native American man on death row in prison.

From BBC • Sep. 1, 2025

The “King of the Hill” premiere catches up with Hank and Peggy returning to Arlen, Texas, 15 years after we last saw them, much of that spent living on an American compound in Saudi Arabia.

From Salon • Aug. 4, 2025

“DC has been playing catch-up with Marvel,” said Arlen Schumer, a comic book and pop culture historian.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 10, 2025

Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania while studying political science at Stanford University in 2003, according to Rolling Stone.

From Washington Times • Jan. 19, 2023

On January 10, 1878, Senator Arlen A. Sargent of California proposed a sixteenth amendment to the Constitution.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling