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    Pampa
    noun
    a city in N Texas.
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    pampa
    An extensive, treeless grassland of southern South America.

Pampa

American  
[pam-puh] / ˈpæm pə /

noun

  1. a city in N Texas.


pampa Scientific  
/ păm′pə /
  1. An extensive, treeless grassland of southern South America.


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Mike Borger, the mayor of Pampa, Texas, one of the towns in Abraham’s coalition, said he would like to see competition in the electric market, and that the coalition is producing results.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

“The people in Lewisville, Texas have a reasonable expectation of privacy from police officers in Pampa, Texas, and yet they can observe all that data,” Little said.

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026

Residents began settling in Pampa Clemesí in the early 2000s.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2025

The Smokehouse Creek fire, near Mr. Homan’s ranch outside the town of Pampa, has expanded to more than one million acres and threatens to grow further this weekend with windy, dry conditions expected.

From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2024

The two principal lakes of the plateau region are Titicaca and Pampa Aullaguas or Poopo.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" by Various

All were European technologies or trade goods adapted by locals on the Patagonian pampa.

From Science Magazine ● Dec. 7, 2023

The tail zigged and zagged through the wet pampa.

From Scientific American ● Feb. 22, 2013

But most Yankees of the U.S. know less about Latin America's most bustling country, its 13,518,239 people and the riches of its fabulously fertile "humid pampa" than they know about Novosibirsk.

From Time Magazine Archive

For Russia had sent a trade delegation to Buenos Aires presumably to offer Soviet tractors, trucks and combines for wool, hides, and blooded pampa bulls to build up Russia's war-depleted herds.

From Time Magazine Archive

By 1580 they controlled the Paraná River from its confluence with the Paraguay to the ocean, had established Santa Fé and Buenos Aires on its right bank, and opened up the southern pampa.

From The South American Republics Part I of II by Thomas C. Dawson

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