Gama
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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None of us ever met Christopher Columbus or Ferdinand Magellan or Vasco da Gama, the great explorers of history, but for more than 50 years astronauts have walked among us.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 11, 2026
Marinakis also confirmed in December he had been in talks to purchase Brazilian side Vasco da Gama.
From BBC ● May 12, 2025
Like Pec, 23, who came to MLS from Brazil’s Vasco da Gama, where he played as a wide winger in a rigid system that left little room for improvisation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 6, 2024
“We are sitting on a time bomb,” Vasco da Gama vice president Felipe Carregal Sztajnbok said in March.
From Seattle Times ● May 7, 2024
Before the British took Malabar, before the Dutch Ascendency, before Vasco da Gama arrived, before the Zamorin’s conquest of Calicut.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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