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lien

[leen, lee-uhn] / lin, ˈli ən /
NOUN
right to dispose of property
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A turning point came in 2005 when then-KMT chairman Lien Chan made an "ice-breaking" visit to Beijing to meet then-Chinese President Hu Jintao.

From Barron's • Apr. 7, 2026

Also, the inventive, nonliteral staging by director Zack Winokur, choreographer Pam Tanowitz, co-set designers Mimi Lien and Jack Forman and lighting designer John Torres is astonishing to look at but not always intelligible.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 22, 2025

He worked in London for a while before settling in France, where he met his Vietnamese wife Yolande Ngo Thi Hoang Lien.

From BBC • Nov. 24, 2024

“This is unprecedented diversity in the political pool,” said Pei-Te Lien, a professor in UC Santa Barbara’s Politics of Identity program.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 30, 2024

Three of the daughters, Lien, Mien, and Johanna, play the piano.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman




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