Karen

[ kuh-ren ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

plural Karens, (especially collectively) Karen.

a group of people of eastern and southern Myanmar (Burma).
one of these people.
the language of the Karen, a Tibeto-Burman language of the Sino-Tibetan family.

adjective

of or relating to the Karen people or their language.

Karen

[ kar-uhn, kahr- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

Also Karin. a first name, form of Katherine.
Informal: Disparaging.
1. a white, usually middle-class woman who is rude, demanding, and aggressive toward other people, particularly customer service workers.
2. a person acting in an aggressive, entitled, rude way:
  He went full Karen on the poor store manager and threatened to get her fired.

Karen

/ ��əˈ��ɛ�� /

noun

-rens-ren a member of a Thai people of Myanmar
the language of this people, probably related to Thai and belonging to the Sino-Tibetan family

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But even as they denounced those reductions, the union leaders secured four years of pay raises for the city’s 3,300 firefighters through negotiations with Mayor Karen Bass.

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Karen Armstrong, sister of John McConville who was killed in the attack, said it has "been a long road".

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Otherwise, she said, the county might have to cut positions down the road, similar to what Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has proposed.

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The bond rating downgrades came days after Mayor Karen Bass outlined the city’s stark economic situation in her proposed budget for 2025-26, which includes laying off about 1,650 city workers.

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She is survived by her daughter Piper, her son Trevor, and her siblings Karen and Michael and four grandchildren.

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