Magdalena
Americannoun
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a river in SW Colombia, flowing N to the Caribbean. 1,060 miles (1,705 km) long.
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a female given name.
noun
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“Airlines are paying for our service and our money is taken as a hostage,” said Magdalena Jaworska-Maćkowiak, chief executive of the Polish Air Navigation Services Agency.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
"Our work does not tell us that such experiments rule out quantum gravity," says Magdalena Zych of Stockholm University and a co-author on the paper.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026
Flowers and candles were left outside the Brinell school in Fagersta where Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson and opposition leader Magdalena Andersson went on Saturday morning to honour the dead student and three wounded victims.
From Barron's ● Aug. 22, 2026
“Travesti Lore tells us it is in the Magdalena where the bodies of the first recorded travestis in the Americas were thrown by the Spanish,” she adds.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026
I know I’ve told Magdalena, but somehow telling Minerva is different.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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