Kalahari
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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In her humble home on the red soil of the Green Kalahari, 92-year-old Katrina Esau listened intently as her two great-grandchildren practised the ancient N|uu language of South Africa's indigenous San people.
From Barron's • Oct. 10, 2025
They proposed that Americans see the illusion only because of their overexposure to carpentry—straight lines and sharp angles that are present in urban environments and the Müller-Lyer figure, but are less prevalent in the Kalahari.
From Slate • Aug. 24, 2025
The trees were discovered growing beneath the Kalahari sands of highland Angola, in central Africa.
From BBC • Jan. 10, 2024
These findings stem from a remarkable continuous decade-long field study of 40 family groups of sparrow weavers in the Tswalu Kalahari Reserve, South Africa.
From Science Daily • Nov. 9, 2023
It may well be that ancient hunter-gatherers living in zones more fertile than the Kalahari spent even less time obtaining food and raw materials.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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