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Ordóñez

American  
[awr-thaw-nyeth, -nyes] / ɔrˈðɔ njɛθ, -njɛs /

noun

  1. Antonio 1932–1998, Spanish bullfighter.


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“Solving these issues is important,” said Vicente Ordóñez, a professor at Rice University who studies computer vision.

From New York Times May 22, 2023

In August, Independiente authorized the transfer of Joel Ordóñez, an 18-year-old defender, to Bruges, and 19-year-old midfielder Anthony Valencia to Royal Antwerp.

From Seattle Times Oct. 26, 2022

A mechanical engineer, he had spent the majority of his years in fossil fuels, with many of them at Montevideo’s José Batlle y Ordóñez, then the largest thermal plant in the country.

From New York Times Oct. 5, 2022

For almost five years, Ordóñez took Efraín a few times each month to Teletón’s headquarters for therapy, cradling him in her arms on public transportation in a wearisome 12-hour round trip.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 24, 2022

Father Fray Diego de Ordóñez learned this language very quickly, and with it obtained what result those warlike confusions and rumors permitted him.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 23 of 55 1629-30 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. by James Alexander Robertson

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