Acapulco
Americannoun
noun
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A fashionable resort known for its beaches and water sports, which include cliff diving.
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In his biography, “Kissinger,” Walter Isaacson wrote that before the wedding, Nixon called the bride to wish her well and warn her of poisonous snakes in Acapulco, where they were to honeymoon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
Coast Guard, it conducted a search-and-rescue operation 400 miles south of the Pacific resort city of Acapulco.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2025
In October 2023, at least 50 people were killed in Mexico during Hurricane Otis, a category 5 hurricane that battered Acapulco, also on Guerrero's Pacific coast.
From BBC ● Jun. 18, 2025
Born in the coastal resort of Acapulco, his parents took him to the US when he was just six-months-old.
From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2025
And it was in Acapulco, in a “jukebox honky-tonk,” that they had met the hairy-legged and hearty Otto.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
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