Bombay
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the former English name of Mumbai
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a breed of black short-haired medium-sized cat
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India's second-largest city, after Calcutta, Bombay is the only natural deep-water harbor in western India.
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"The definition has been kept so vague that almost any benefit accruing to a person can be considered or argued to be an allurement," said Abhay Thipsay, a retired Bombay High Court judge.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
"But Bombay has little places which remind us of the old times."
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
Another survivor in Mumbai -- formerly known as Bombay -- is the Regal Cinema, an Art Deco hall that opened in 1933.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
Its smaller rival BSE, formerly known as the Bombay Stock Exchange, listed in 2017.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
Baba told me stories of his travels to India and Russia, the people he had met, like the armless, legless couple in Bombay who’d been married forty-seven years and raised eleven children.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
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