Bulawayo
Americannoun
noun
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Zimbabwe beat Pakistan by an innings in 1995 in Harare and repeated the feat against Bangladesh six years later in Bulawayo.
From Barron's • Oct. 22, 2025
In a region of relatively high rainfall near present-day Bulawayo in Zimbabwe, the people of Leopard’s Kopje developed a complex mixed economy of livestock-keeping and herding and agriculture.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
Or perhaps, as the author NoViolet Bulawayo writes, we need new names.
From New York Times • Mar. 16, 2023
Two shortlisted books are told from the perspective of animals: anthropomorphic fable “Glory” by Zimbabwe’s NoViolet Bulawayo and British writer Laline Paull’s deep-sea dolphin drama “Pod.”
From Seattle Times • Mar. 7, 2023
The market was encircled with idling buses and long lines of people waiting to go to Harare or Bulawayo, or to other countries like Mozambique, Botswana, or South Africa.
From "I Will Always Write Back" by Caitlin Alifirenka and Martin Ganda
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