nashi

/ ˈnæʃɪ /

noun

another name for Asian pear

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Word History and Origins

Origin of nashi¹

Japanese: pear

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Example Sentences

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This was supposed to be a breakout year for Chinese actress Nashi, with major roles in two blockbuster films and a highly anticipated TV drama.

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Nashi, for instance, was accused of using her actress mother's connections to enrol in a prestigious drama school.

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Speculation grew in early June, just as millions of high school seniors sat for the gruelling university entrance exam called Gaokao – the same exam that earned Nashi a spot at the drama school in 2008.

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Throughout, he maintained a Russian connection, working with "Nashi", the Kremlin's youth movement, and creating a self-styled "election-monitoring group" that declared Moscow's 2014 illegal referendums in Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk "free and fair".

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Drokova became a spokesperson for Nashi, a youth group that physically harassed Putin opponents.