Kuban

American  

[koo-ban, koo-bahn] / kuˈbæn, kuˈbɑn /

noun

1. a river flowing NW from the Caucasus Mountains to the Black and the Azov seas. 512 miles (825 km) long.

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Kuban British  

/ kuˈbanj /

noun

1. a river in SW Russia, rising in the Caucasus Mountains and flowing north and northwest to the Sea of Azov. Length: 906 km (563 miles)

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Example Sentences

Dinosaur tracks “are quite a bit more common” than dinosaur bones, Kuban said, though much of the early research done by paleontologists focused on bones.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 25, 2022

Kuban noted paleontologist Robert Bakker was ridiculed for hypothesizing some species could run up to twice that.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 25, 2022

Last fall on the website Serious Eats, the New York pizza historians Ed Levine, Adam Kuban and Scott Wiener announced a “new golden age” for New York-style pizza, with a list of 27 supporting slices.

From New York Times • Feb. 19, 2019

As a journalism major at Kuban State University, Simonyan landed an internship and, quickly thereafter, a correspondent position at a local TV station.

From New York Times • Sep. 13, 2017

Behind her, flying far back in the line of Po-2s, Larisa and Nadya were over the Kuban River and halfway to the target when Larisa saw four searchlights suddenly begin to comb the sky.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein