Jaffna
Americannoun
noun
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Ganeshalingam, head of political science at the University of Jaffna.
From Seattle Times • May 31, 2024
It lies to the northeast to Rameswaram town in India's Tamil Nadu state and to the southwest of Sri Lanka's Jaffna city.
From BBC • Apr. 2, 2024
Ahilan Kadirgamar, an economist at the country’s Jaffna University, said the economy was likely to shrink by 10 percent.
From Washington Post • Jun. 23, 2022
The 48-year-old driver joined the crowd waiting for the premiere at a theater in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, where Tamil separatists fought years for independence before government forces crushed them in 2009.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 24, 2016
TENNENT, Sir J.E., on the goose. -on the growth of the apple in Ceylon. -on the Jaffna sheep.
From The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 2 by Darwin, Charles
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