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Crimean

British  
/ kraɪˈmɪən /

adjective

  1. of or relating to the Crimea or its inhabitants

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noun

  1. a native or inhabitant of the Crimea

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Example Sentences

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Russia, economically weakened after losing the Crimean War, sold Alaska to the U.S. in 1867 for just $7.2 million.

From The Wall Street Journal

Both the archaeologist and the Hermitage insist all their finds remain in Crimea as they are transferred to the Eastern Crimean Museum in Kerch.

From BBC

Gleb Bogush says it is primarily the Russian state and its officials that are responsible for Crimean excavations, rather than Butyagin, because it was not up to archaeologists to decide whether the Hermitage expedition should continue.

From BBC

In director Guillermo del Toro’s take on the classic fable Frankenstein, Elordi glows an undead white as the monster, his body a patchwork of human parts sawed off of Crimean War corpses.

From The Wall Street Journal

In 2016, Ukraine also won the event with a song called 1944 about the ethnic cleansing of Crimean Tatars in that year by Soviet forces.

From BBC