- a variation of Mohave.
Mojave
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Mojaves,
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Mojave
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noun
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The plant is located in Earp, Calif., in the Mojave Desert south of Needles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 16, 2026
The California company Cadiz has been trying for years to pipe water out of the Mojave Desert.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2026
Earlier this month, an Arizona water agency announced it signed an initial “memorandum of understanding” agreement to buy up to 10,000 acre-feet of water per year from Cadiz’s Mojave Groundwater Bank.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
The 30-inch steel pipeline runs underground from Cadiz’s desert property, near the town of Amboy, northward to the town of Mojave.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
Near the end of his trip, it turned out, Chris had gotten lost in the Mojave Desert and had nearly succumbed to dehydration.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
Avi Kwa Ame, for the Fort Mojaves, is not a recreational place.
From New York Times ● Jan. 24, 2023
Perhaps we, too, are mosses, evolving to the parch of our self-made Mojaves.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 19, 2022
The only Indians we had seen up to that time were the peaceful tribes of the Yumas, Cocopahs and Mojaves, who lived along the Colorado.
From Vanished Arizona by Martha Summerhayes
Another thing that amused the boys was a balsa, or raft, made by the Mojaves, of the cane-grass which grew in the river-bottoms to the height of fifteen feet.
From Captured by the Navajos by Charles A. (Charles Albert) Curtis
Hoffman, as made in Northern Arizona in 1871 by the Apaches, Mojaves, Hualpais, and Seviches.
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