Gaya

American  

[gah-yuh, gahy-uh, guh-yah] / ˈgɑ yə, ˈgaɪ ə, gəˈyɑ /

noun

1. a city in central Bihar, in NE India: Hindu center of pilgrimage.

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Gaya British  

/ ˈɡɑːjə, ˈɡaɪə /

noun

1. a city in NE India, in Bihar: Hindu place of pilgrimage and one of the holiest sites of Buddhism. Pop: 383 197 (2001)

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Example Sentences

I was in Bodh Gaya in the northern Indian state of Bihar, the birthplace of Buddhism, on the first night of Diwali, the Hindu festival of light.

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Ahmed Gaya — who works as director of the Climate Justice Collaborative at the National Partnership for New Americans, a national coalition of 83 state and local immigrant and refugee organizations — explained to Salon that these pseudoscientific policies are specifically targeted against immigrants.

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“For the climate justice movement, this means a dual fight — not only to resist the rollback of environmental protections but also to defend vulnerable immigrant communities against harmful exclusionary policies,” Gaya said.

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According to Gaya, this is part of the larger authoritarian pattern of distracting people from climate change by blaming vulnerable communities.

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“Over the next four years, the climate movement must stand immutably and materially against xenophobia and use every tool at its disposal to resist Trump's proposed mass deportation scheme and other attacks on immigrant and refugee communities,” Gaya said.

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