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
Palmira felt her brother's fingers closing with a sudden thrill upon her own.
From Vestigia Vol. I. by Fleming, George
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