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Nicolai

American  
[nik-uh-lahy, nee-koh-lah-ee] / ˈnɪk əˌlaɪ, ˌni koʊˈlɑ i /

noun

  1. (Carl) Otto (Ehrenfried) 1810–49, German composer.


Nicolai British  
/ nikoˈlaɪ /

noun

  1. Carl Otto Ehrenfried (karl ˈɔto ˈeːrənfriːt). 1810–49, German composer: noted for his opera The Merry Wives of Windsor (1849)

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“April will be much worse than March,” Fatih Birol, the executive director of the IEA, said on an episode of Norges Bank Investment Management CEO Nicolai Tangen’s podcast.

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And when his final putt went in, he had secured a dominant victory at 21-under, five strokes ahead second-place finisher Nicolai Hojgaard.

From The Wall Street Journal

The American, who had not won a tournament since the 2019 US Open, beat Denmark's Nicolai Hojgaard by five shots to clinch the PGA Tour event in Texas.

From BBC

Lagarde, ranked by Forbes as the world’s second-most powerful woman — she says her son asked why she wasn’t ranked first — discussed her global outlook with Nicolai Tangen, who manages Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, the world’s largest with $2 trillion in assets.

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IN and out of a checkpoint—a village named Nicolai.

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