Zapata

[ zuh-pah-tuh; Spanish sah-pah-tah ]

noun

1. E·mi·lia·no [e-mee-, lyah, -naw], 1877?–1919, Mexican revolutionary and agrarian reformer: guerrilla leader 1911–16.

Zapata

/ zəˈpɑːtə; θaˈpata /

noun

1. ZapataEmiliano?18771919MMexicanPOLITICS: guerrilla leader Emiliano (emiˈljano). ?1877–1919, Mexican guerrilla leader

Example Sentences

Both men immediately went into armed rebellion against their former allies — Zapata in the south and Villa in the north.

From Washington Post

The pattern is as close to perfect as Zapata’s team could have hoped to see.

From Fortune

With its bars-and-stripes experiment, Zapata’s team must wait hours to receive the final results from Honeywell’s computer, which, in these early days of quantum, is painfully slow.

From Fortune

Zapata was cofounded in Boston in 2017 by Alán Aspuru-Guzik, a leading researcher in quantum chemistry who was at Harvard University and is now at the University of Toronto, and members of his research lab.

From Fortune

Many of these are focused on financial portfolio optimization, and BBVA has worked with Zapata’s Orquestra to help run these tests.

From Fortune

Villa and Zapata looked on, smiling their papier mache smiles, sure they had seen something like this before.

From The Daily Beast

The faces of Villa and Zapata looked on from the opposite end of the square.

From The Daily Beast

On June 11, 1958, many individuals were calling from shallow water in a flooded field at Emiliano Zapata.

From Project Gutenberg

Zapata relates what is evidently the exploit which brought to a close the promising career of this enterprising knave.

From Project Gutenberg

On the south coast, directly opposite Matanzas, lies a vast swamp known as the Cienega de Zapata.

From Project Gutenberg

In the swamp known as the Cienega de Zapata are both alligators and crocodiles, some of them of quite imposing dimensions.

From Project Gutenberg

Don Marcos Zapata went to attack them, and killed thirty and captured thirty others.

From Project Gutenberg