Dili
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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"Life is normal in Dili," he told the BBC on Wednesday.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2025
Some 600,000 people have gathered in a field outside Timor-Leste’s capital Dili for one of the biggest masses of Pope Francis’s papacy.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2024
“He has a charisma and rich experience as a leader,” a Dili resident, Joao Agustino Sarmento, said of Gusmao.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 1, 2023
"The very first time I talked about this I was only 24, or 25," he said by telephone from the capital Dili.
From Reuters ● Nov. 12, 2022
The only remaining possession of the Portuguese in the Malay Archipelago is Dili in the island of Timor.
From A Description of the Coasts of East Africa and Malabar in the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century by Barbosa, Duarte
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