Calabar
Americannoun
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a river in SE Nigeria. About 70 miles (113 km) long.
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a seaport near the mouth of this river.
noun
Example Sentences
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Goodluck Jonathan – who served from 2010 to 2015 – had a relatively balanced team of two ethnic Fulanis, two Hausas, one Atyap, one Igbo, one Yoruba and one Calabar.
From BBC • May 26, 2025
The contract signed with Nigeria’s government in 2010 was for the company to build a gas processing plant in the southeastern port city of Calabar.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 23, 2023
On Friday night, Sweet delivered his presidential address, titled “Slave Trading as a Corporate Criminal Conspiracy, from the Calabar Massacre to BLM, 1767–2022,” in front of a standing-room crowd.
From New York Times • Jan. 8, 2023
A man showing Ebola-like symptoms died shortly after he was admitted to the University of Calabar Teaching Hospital in the country’s southeastern corner, near the border with Cameroon, according to the BBC.
From Time • Oct. 9, 2015
Baby was with the younger children, crowded near the banana trees, listening to Papa Oji telling a story of how he shot down an enemy plane in Calabar with his pistol.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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