Celebes
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
- Celebesian adjective
Example Sentences
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“This is not sexist,” said Rear Admiral Ronnie Gil Gavan, who came up with the idea of the unit in 2018 after leading anti-piracy operations in the Celebes Sea.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 29, 2021
The men had set off on 21 December with other fishermen aboard a purse seiner from General Santos, a southern Philippine port facing the Celebes Sea.
From The Guardian • Mar. 29, 2017
Last month, the zoo was forced to hand back the five surviving animals - a spotted leopard, a black leopard, a brown bear and two Celebes macaque monkeys - to Thompson's widow, Marian.
From Scientific American • Jun. 6, 2012
The Zoo has a spotted leopard, a black leopard, two Celebes macaques, and one brown bear in quarantine from the farm.
From Reuters • Jan. 31, 2012
Did they proceed to overrun that island, just as they had already overrun the big mountainous islands of Celebes, Borneo, Java, and Sumatra?
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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