Ben
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- //bɛn//
- //bɪn//
A shortening of the male given name Benjamin or, less often, of Benedict.
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A shortening of the male given name Benjamin or, less often, of Benedict.
Ben wolved down a digestive biscuit, then stretched out on his stomach on the flagstones beside them.
After a moment of comfortable silence, with Ben tenderly rubbing his thumb gently over the back of her hand, he asked, “So what do you want to do now that you’re all stuffed full of waffley goodness?”
When mathematicians face a question they cannot answer, they sometimes devise a less stringent question, in the hope that solving it will provide insights. This is the path that Tao took in 2004, in collaboration with Ben Green of Oxford.
But Andy and Ben, they are lovers, not fighters … and they are going the battered sav.
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slangA US$100 bill, which bears a portrait of Benjamin Franklin. Often used in the plural form to indicate large sums of money.
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The capital city of Ben County, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province, Iran.
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A county of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province, Iran.
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Variant of BengAlternative form of Beng (“Mande language of Ivory Coast”).
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- Bens
Ben · A shortening of the male given name Benjamin or, less often, of Benedict.
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