Allende
Americannoun
noun
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Isabel. born 1942, Chilean writer, born in Peru; her works include Eva Luna (1989), Paula (1995), and Daughter of Fortune (1999)
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Salvador (salβaˈðor). 1908–73, Chilean Marxist politician; president of Chile from 1970 until 1973, when the army seized power and he was killed
Example Sentences
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Isabel Allende, a novelist, always begins writing new books on Jan. 8 to force her brain into creative mode.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026
Wood said he read “The House of the Spirits” for the first time when he was 15 or 16 in 1983, under the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, which Allende had fled eight years prior.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2026
The mix of Damian de Allende, Jesse Kriel, Canan Moodie, Damian Willemse and even Andre Esterhuizen gives them different ways of playing.
From BBC • Feb. 8, 2026
My own diagnosis came under stranger circumstances: on vacation, in a shared van going from Mexico City to San Miguel de Allende.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 23, 2026
After driving for hours in the hot morning sun without stopping, past Nava, past Allende, past Nueva Rosita and Sabinas, we hit a long stretch of open road.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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