Macapagal

American  

[mah-kah-pah-gahl] / ˌmɑ kɑ pɑˈgɑl /

noun

1. Diosdado 1910–97, Philippine statesman: president 1961–65.

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Example Sentences

Only after his conviction was he granted a pardon by the vice president who had replaced him, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.

From Washington Post • Jul. 27, 2022

At one point, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo of the Philippines, Asia’s leading rice importer at the time, deployed armed soldiers to supervise government rice sales.

From New York Times • Jun. 10, 2022

Another possible candidate is Romualdez’s ally and former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, who brokered the alliance of Marcos Jr. and Sara Duterte.

From Seattle Times • May 12, 2022

Shady Palms’ nascent baker and entrepreneur Lila Macapagal must overcome PTSD, depression and associated family stigma to help cousin Bernadette, suspected of the murder of an obnoxious teen pageant judge.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 9, 2022

The bowmen of Master-of-camp Don Juan Macapagal had already arrived, also the 200 Pampango veteran soldiers in charge of Master-of-camp Don Francisco Lacsamana.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 36, 1649-1666 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. by Bourne, Edward Gaylord