Borges

[ bawr-hes ]

/ ˈbɔr hɛs /

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noun

Jor·ge Luis

[hawr-he lwees], /ˈhɔr hɛ lwis/, 1899–1986, Argentine poet, short-story writer, and philosophical essayist.

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boresome, bore to death, Borg, Borger, Borgerhout, Borges, Borgesian, Borges, Jorge Luis, Borghese, Borghild, Borgia

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How to use Borges in a sentence

A July 2020 study “showed that 5 percent of the population carried the active virus — that is one person in 20, a very high rate,” Borges says.
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Over time, Borges wrote, “the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a single Province occupied the entirety of a City, and the map of the Empire, the entirety of a Province.”
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Luckily, Borges was taken to hospital and has since recovered.
The apps keeping Rio’s residents safe from stray bullets|Niall Firth|November 26, 2020|MIT Technology Review
Maria Borges, an African model in her second VS show, said everyone back home in Angola would be watching her.
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Still other critics are baffled that Borges was influenced by such strange and disparate sources.
Borges Had A Genius For Literature But Not Love Or Much Else|Allen Barra|October 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Over the next couple of years, though, some felt a letdown when they discovered that Borges had written no long works.
Borges Had A Genius For Literature But Not Love Or Much Else|Allen Barra|October 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Borges had an almost Evelyn Waugh-like capacity for sucking up to the upper classes.
Borges Had A Genius For Literature But Not Love Or Much Else|Allen Barra|October 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It was not a wise move, but then Borges was never known for wise moves except when writing.
Borges Had A Genius For Literature But Not Love Or Much Else|Allen Barra|October 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In 1515 he received a sum of money to enable his sister Felipa Borges to marry.
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British Dictionary definitions for Borges

Borges

/ (Spanish ˈborxes) /

noun

Jorge Luis (ˈxorxe lwis). 1899–1986, Argentinian poet, short-story writer, and literary scholar. The short stories collected in Ficciones (1944) he described as "games with infinity"

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