Palmira
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Palmira Figueroa, director of communications for the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, said 13 people were detained in the raid.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 14, 2025
“It was their culture, their history, their ancestry, and it was ripped away from them in the worst way,” said Miguel Ibarra, a doctoral researcher of Afro-Latino history in the nearby city of Palmira.
From New York Times • Mar. 30, 2023
Taipei's embassy in the leafy Palmira neighborhood was for years one of the Central American capital's most prominent foreign outposts, as well as the country's second-biggest embassy after the U.S. embassy.
From Reuters • Mar. 27, 2023
Last week, researchers and officials dedicated a $17 million gene bank facility in Palmira, Colombia, with a high metal canopy intended to evoke a forest.
From Science Magazine • Mar. 20, 2022
It was a fairy story—out of a book—but now you have come in and interrupted it,' observed little Palmira quietly, looking gravely up at both of them from where she still knelt upon the floor.
From Vestigia Vol. I. by Fleming, George
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