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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

Along with these generational transfers, Avilés also danced.

From New York Times • May 27, 2024

It featured speakers including Council Member Alexa Avilés, chair of the Committee on Immigration, Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, and representatives of advocacy and support groups.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 19, 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