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[yen] / yɛn /


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Mandelkern: That just reminded me of one of the quotes in the book from John Yen, who is the VP of operations at Skanska.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

"If you want to put a sensor out in the wild, in a farm or in a wetland, you are constrained to putting a battery in it or harvesting solar energy," Yen said.

From Science Daily • Apr. 19, 2026

About 40 kilometres southeast of Hanoi in Lam's native Hung Yen province, farmer Dong voiced similar complaints after being evicted to make way for a $1.5 billion golf course being developed by the Trump Organization.

From Barron's • Apr. 8, 2026

The Yen is disrupting global trade, Trump makes his Fed chair nomination, and CEOs are speaking up for the first time in a while.

From Slate • Jan. 31, 2026

I like to think that at some of those performances, they heard the songs of Ts’ai Yen, a poetess born in A.D.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston




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