Mutare

American

[moo-tahr-ee, -tahr-ay] / muˈtɑr i, -ˈtɑr eɪ /

noun

a city in eastern Zimbabwe.

Mutare British

/ muːˈtɑːrɪ /

noun

Former name (until 1982): Umtali. a city in E Zimbabwe, near the Mozambique border: rail and trade centre in a mining and tobacco-growing region. Pop: 160 000 (2005 est)

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She was originally from Mutare in eastern Zimbabwe, had graduated with a PhD from Dundee University, and had recently started working for Scottish Water.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

Mutare was indicted on those charges earlier this month, ICE said.

From Fox News ● Mar. 10, 2020

By those standards, Mharakurwa, who now has an administrative post at Africa University in Mutare, Zimbabwe, but is still doing research at Macha, is a relative newcomer, with 15 years under his belt.

From Nature ● Oct. 16, 2018

But in Headlands - a swathe of villages just off the road between Mutare and Harare - newspapers rarely make an appearance.

From BBC ● Dec. 23, 2010

Everything seemed faster and louder and brighter in Harare than in Mutare.

From "I Will Always Write Back" by Caitlin Alifirenka and Martin Ganda

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