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Chilean

British  
/ ˈtʃɪlɪən /

adjective

  1. of or relating to Chile or its inhabitants

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noun

  1. a native or inhabitant of Chile

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Chilean President Gabriel Boric, a leftist who has called Cuba a dictatorship, said his government would also provide aid to Cuba through Unicef.

From The Wall Street Journal

Spanish telecoms giant Telefonica announced the sale of its Chilean unit for $1.2 billion on Tuesday in its push to leave Latin America and concentrate on core markets elsewhere.

From Barron's

Camilo Castro, who has Chilean origins, was detained on June 26, 2025 after crossing into Venezuela from neighboring Colombia, where he lived.

From Barron's

Most of us, thank goodness, will not have experienced anything like the ordeal that 33 Chilean miners underwent when the ground collapsed around them in August 2010, trapping them deep beneath the earth.

From The Wall Street Journal

Europe's ESO star-gazing organisation on Monday welcomed plans to call off building a massive green energy project in the Chilean desert which threatened to spoil its telescopes' view of the darkest skies on Earth.

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