Lippe
Americannoun
noun
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a former state of NW Germany, now part of the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia
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a river in NW Germany, flowing west to the Rhine. Length: about 240 km (150 miles)
Example Sentences
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Brown is expected to hand the baton to Lippe eventually, according to people familiar with the matter.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025
Thomas Lippe, attorney for the two nonprofit groups that brought the lawsuit against UC, could not be immediately reached for comment.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2023
In 2016 Kowarik and his colleagues, including Moritz von der Lippe, Buchholz, and Grossmann, launched a project called CityScapeLab Berlin to do just that.
From Science Magazine • Nov. 2, 2022
She had occasional flirtations and brief relationships, notably with Johnny Bravo in a ’90s cartoon crossover, but her romantic feelings were rarely as central to the story as other characters, Mr. Lippe said.
From New York Times • Oct. 5, 2022
Likewise did I fish in the Lippe, and was so lucky at that, that it seemed as if I could conjure both fish and crayfish out of the water.
From The Adventurous Simplicissimus being the description of the Life of a Strange vagabond named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim by Grimmelshausen, Hans Jacob Christoph von
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