Vargas
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Artle, 70, was trying to sleep when his neighbor and friend, Rudy Vargas, came banging on his door around 3 a.m.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2026
Admittedly, Switzerland did not offer much going forward against Colombia, with Johan Manzambi out injured and Ruben Vargas only fit enough to come on in extra time.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
"I survived the Vargas landslide," she said, referring to the 1999 disaster in the same area that killed thousands.
From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 2026
After December 1999 floods in the state, then called Vargas, killed thousands, Hugo Chávez changed the state’s name and threw up hundreds of apartment buildings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
Most important, Tawantinsuyu “managed to eradicate hunger,” the Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa noted.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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