Crimean
Britishadjective
noun
Example Sentences
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Russia meanwhile accused Ukraine of launching more than 150 drones overnight into Tuesday, mainly over southern regions and the Crimean peninsula -- occupied by the Kremlin in 2014.
From Barron's • Feb. 18, 2026
In director Guillermo del Toro’s take on the classic fable Frankenstein, Elordi glows an undead white as the monster, his body a patchwork of human parts sawed off of Crimean War corpses.
From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 30, 2025
In 2016, Ukraine also won the event with a song called 1944 about the ethnic cleansing of Crimean Tatars in that year by Soviet forces.
From BBC • Sep. 15, 2025
More than half the population of Crimea was Russian, mainly because the original majority population of Crimean Tatars were deported under Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin in 1944.
From BBC • Apr. 24, 2025
The Crimean war had been begun and was in bloody progress, but "Sebastopol wasn't taken!"
From North-Pole Voyages by Mudge, Zachariah Atwell
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