Nanay
Americannoun
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a member of a Tungusic people, traditionally hunters and fishermen, who inhabit the lower Amur Valley in southeastern Siberia and northeastern Manchuria.
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the language of the Nanays.
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Cambridge professor Bence Nanay: "In the last decade or so, the time we spend daydreaming or mind-wandering has seriously diminished."
From Salon • Jan. 9, 2024
At the swampy confluence of the Amazon, Nanay and Itaya Rivers, Iquitos is the port city located farthest inland in the world, some 2,000 miles upriver from the Atlantic Ocean.
From New York Times • Sep. 13, 2013
Julia Nanay, a senior director at PFC Energy, says the first phase should generate profits if current oil prices hold.
From BusinessWeek • Nov. 23, 2011
The whole mass of trunks was symmetrically arranged on a flat part of the bank, which he had already leveled up at the junction of the Nanay with the great river.
From Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon by Verne, Jules
To the west some small rivulets, tributaries of the Nanay, and some lagoons of small extent, separated it from the savannah and the fields devoted to the pasturage of the cattle.
From Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon by Verne, Jules
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