Alagoas
Americannoun
noun
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The vehicle had been carrying about 60 people who were returning from a pilgrimage when it crashed on a curved stretch of a highway in the rural interior of Alagoas state on Tuesday morning.
From BBC • Feb. 3, 2026
Around 200,000 people in the Alagoas state’s capital of Maceio were affected by the excessive extraction of rock salt, according to the Brazil Senate’s website.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 21, 2023
He continued in politics and later served 26 years as a conservative senator for the northeastern state of Alagoas, where his well-to-do family was from.
From Reuters • May 31, 2023
Since the end of his participation in the program, Diaz has been living in a small town in the northeastern state of Alagoas, where jobs are few and far between.
From Slate • Apr. 14, 2020
De Sylva, a native of Alagoas, was the first to break down the monopoly.
From The Stowaway Girl by Tracy, Louis
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