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[kuhn-teyn] / kənˈteɪn /




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The vessel containing his mother’s body was driven from Berlin to Schleswig-Holstein.

From The Wall Street Journal

Ratner’s name also surfaces in a number of emails contained in the released files in which Epstein discusses his attempts to connect with the director and descriptions in which their social circles overlap.

From Los Angeles Times

Using modern text analysis, we examined hundreds of thousands of songs and every word they contained.

From The Wall Street Journal

USA Rare Earth is developing a Texas mine that contains 15 of the 17 rare-earth elements and a magnet manufacturing plant in Oklahoma.

From The Wall Street Journal

Later, they realized that the cloud contained bits of Mount St. Helens’s glaciers, which were raining down along with ash, and the ice stung their skin.

From Literature