Gambian
Britishadjective
noun
Example Sentences
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In the coastal Gambian town of Tanji, Sirah Darboe-Manneh cleans fish next to a row of ice boxes laying empty because of relentless power cuts.
From Barron's ● Sep. 17, 2026
Pressing the ICJ to lower the standard are the overlapping Gambian and South African legal teams.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
The Gambian Navy launched a hunt for survivors after midnight, involving several vessels and a fishing boat.
From Barron's ● Jan. 2, 2026
They were sailing under the Gambian flag and belonged to Moscow’s murky shipping network that is estimated to include several hundred vessels, many of which have patchy safety records.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 3, 2025
The government's 1998 seizure of the private peanut firm Alimenta eliminated the largest purchaser of Gambian groundnuts; the following two marketing seasons have seen significantly lower prices and sales.
From The 2001 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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