Dampier
Americannoun
noun
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The question is how productive transfer quarterback Devon Dampier can be playing behind that line.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2025
Rio exports from Dampier port and through Cape Lambert in the northern part of Western Australia state.
From Reuters ● Jun. 19, 2023
Dampier is the director of the Minneapolis chapter of the Man Up Club, which mentors at-risk African American men between ages 12 to 24.
From Fox News ● Jan. 26, 2022
Dampier chose his career to support his insatiable interest in biology, and his field notes reveal a man easily distracted from the business of raiding a town by his delight at discovering colorful parrots.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 14, 2021
In 1703-1707 Dampier commanded two government privateers on an expedition to the South Seas with grievous unsuccess; better fortune attended him on his last voyage, as pilot to Woodes Rogers in the circumnavigation of 1708-1711.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" by Various
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