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Mayagüez

American  
[mah-yah-gwes] / ˌmɑ jɑˈgwɛs /

noun

  1. a seaport in W Puerto Rico.


Mayagüez British  
/ majaˈɣwɛθ /

noun

  1. a port in W Puerto Rico; needlework industry. Pop: 97 627 (2003 est)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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She scribbled doodles and poems in her notebook while she attended Catholic school in nearby Mayagüez, eventually writing songs that she posted to SoundCloud under the Young Miko moniker.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 5, 2024

The researchers examined samples from six live sclerosponges that a diving team from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez collected off the shores of Puerto Rico and St. Croix, in the U.S.

From New York Times Feb. 5, 2024

A study from the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, found that 200,000 households went more than five months without power after Maria.

From Salon Apr. 21, 2023

Nikolaos Schizas, a marine scientist at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, cautions that fire corals may not save reefs because they don’t typically form reefs that are meters high and wide.

From Science Magazine Jul. 12, 2022

The service affiliated with the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez documented 15 earthquakes on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, all in the same area.

From Washington Post Jan. 22, 2020

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