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canard

[kuh-nahrd, ka-nar] / kəˈnɑrd, kaˈnar /


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The anti-corruption association had filed a complaint in December 2025 over the misappropriation of public funds, following an article in French investigative weekly Le Canard Enchaine.

From Barron's • May 7, 2026

Footage posted by the French satirical and investigative paper, Le Canard Enchaîné, shows two groups fighting on a nearby street corner.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 21, 2026

A prominent French Egyptologist who queried the provenance of the stele in 2018, Marc Gabolde, told Le Canard enchainé that his questions to the Louvre had remained unanswered.

From BBC • May 26, 2022

According to the newspaper Le Canard Enchaine, investigators were looking into whether Martinez "turned a blind eye" to false certificates of provenance for five Egyptian antiquities.

From Washington Post • May 26, 2022

At the mouth of the river Canard, a small tributary of the Detroit, the Queen Charlotte, a sloop of war, armed with eighteen twenty-four pounders, lay at anchor, watching every manœuvre.

From The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1 by Roger, Charles




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