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Bruxelles

American  
[bry-sel, bryk-] / brüˈsɛl, brük- /

noun

  1. Brussels.


Bruxelles British  
/ brysɛl /

noun

  1. the French name for Brussels

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This fact could make a toll more likely as an outcome of the cease-fire talks that are set to start this weekend, said Guntram Wolff, economics professor at Belgium’s Université Libre de Bruxelles.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 10, 2026

He shared the samples with Cem Berk Senel, a paleoclimate modeling researcher at the Royal Observatory of Belgium who was then a graduate student at Université Libre de Bruxelles.

From New York Times • Oct. 30, 2023

Co-author Pierre Gaspard at the Université Libre de Bruxelles developed a reaction scheme and theoretically imposedperiodically changing temperatures to replicate the experimental rates and selectivities of the reaction.

From Science Daily • Oct. 5, 2023

“The discovery is quite extraordinary,” said Denis Fournier, an ant biologist at the Université libre de Bruxelles who was not involved in the research.

From Washington Post • Apr. 6, 2023

Young Castlewood came flying back from Bruxelles, as soon as he heard that righting was to begin; and the arrival of the Chevalier de St. George was announced about May.

From Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by Saintsbury, George