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Dumaguete

American  
[doo-mah-ge-te] / ˌdu mɑˈgɛ tɛ /

noun

  1. a city on S Negros, in the S central Philippines.


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When Pfeiffer was 10, his parents took over the music program at Silliman University, a Presbyterian school in Dumaguete, the Philippines.

From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2024

Still it gets lonely in Dumaguete, 7,400 miles and nine time zones west of PGA West and 5,000 miles west of Honolulu's Waialae Country Club, another course he played with his father.

From Golf Digest ● Sep. 25, 2012

Ride past Dumaguete Harbor, where a cargo ship lies half-sunk in the shallows, through crowded, diesel-scented streets lined with Internet cafés, car-repair shacks, fruit stands, chickens and goats.

From Golf Digest ● Sep. 25, 2012

He rents a house in Dumaguete, a coastal town on the Philippine island of Negros, where an active volcano leaks steam into the tropical sky.

From Golf Digest ● Sep. 25, 2012

The biasong has been collected in Cebu, Bohol, Dumaguete, Negros, and in the Zamboanga and Misamis Provinces in Mindanao, in all of which it is sparingly cultivated.

From The Philippine Agricultural Review Vol. VIII, First Quarter, 1915 No. 1 by Various

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