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Irvine

American  
[ur-vahyn, ur-vin] / ˈɜr vaɪn, ˈɜr vɪn /

noun

  1. a city in SW California.

  2. Also Irvin. a male given name.


Irvine 1 British  
/ ˈɜːvɪn /

noun

  1. a town on the W coast of Scotland, the administrative centre of North Ayrshire: designated a new town in 1966. Pop: 33 090 (2001)

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Irvine 2 British  
/ ˈɜːvaɪn /

noun

  1. Alexander Andrew Mackay, Baron, known as Derry. born 1940, British lawyer and Labour politician; Lord Chancellor (1997–2003)

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Campos Rios was pronounced dead at UC Irvine Medical Center at 3:55 a.m.

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FBI agents and hazardous materials teams descended on a gated residential community in Irvine on Wednesday night, performing a raid on a single-family home and carefully removing chemicals found inside.

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The investigation began Monday after a landlord reported “suspicious activity” at the residence on Cartwheel, near Iluna, according to the Irvine Police Department.

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Michael Hahn, a linguist based in Saarbrücken, set out to answer that question with Richard Futrell from the University of California, Irvine.

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Teenage students running through neighborhoods with realistic water guns may trigger an emergency response, the Irvine Police Department said in a social media post.

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