Buenaventura
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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“Everything is going up,” said Ariel Buenaventura, a doorman at a 16-story red-brick building on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
Farmers in the mountainous region of San Buenaventura, in the north-west of the country, said the blazes had left a trail of devastation.
From BBC • Nov. 28, 2023
She hopes to see them again, in a different Buenaventura.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 18, 2023
It was processed elsewhere before being sold nationally or smuggled to the Pacific port city of Buenaventura and exported.
From Reuters • Jul. 27, 2023
With the coming of more soldiers in 1781 the desired step was taken, and in 1782 Mission San Buenaventura and the presidio of Santa Barbara, and in 1786 Mission Santa Barbara were founded.
From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Bolton, Herbert Eugene
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