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Avilés

American  
[ah-vuh-leys, ah-vee-les] / ˌɑ vəˈleɪs, ˌɑ viˈlɛs /

noun

  1. a port in Asturias, NW Spain, on the Bay of Biscay.


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“This is highly problematic and deeply troubling,” said City Council member Alexa Avilés, who has sponsored police reform legislation.

From Salon • Sep. 12, 2024

The voices included those of his younger collaborators, Hunter Sturgis and Nikolai McKenzie, who introduced themselves and joined Avilés in a lecture-demonstration of his Swift/Flow technique.

From New York Times • May 27, 2024

“The 30-60 day notices disproportionately affect Black immigrants,” said Council Member Alexa Avilés, Chair of the Committee on Immigration, in a gilded hearing room Tuesday.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 16, 2024

Images of the construction of the building on Avenue del General Avilés, retrieved from Google Maps in 2008, suggest the cladding panels used were made by the Spanish multinational Alucoil.

From BBC • Feb. 28, 2024

If the Avilés charter be genuine, and of its assigned date, it does not follow that at the very same time poetry of a much less uncouth character was not being composed in Spanish.

From The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by Saintsbury, George

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