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Plata

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/ ˈplata /

noun

  1. Also known as: La Plata.  English name: River Plate.  an estuary on the SE coast of South America, between Argentina and Uruguay, formed by the Uruguay and Paraná Rivers. Length: 275 km (171 miles). Width: (at its mouth) 225 km (140 miles)

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A week after President Trump signed the peace deal with Iran, Plata Carrier started sailing from waters off the U.A.E. inside the Gulf toward Hormuz.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 2, 2026

The ARA San Juan went missing a week after it set off from Ushuaia on Argentina's southern tip and was returning to its home port at the Mar del Plata naval base.

From Barron's Mar. 4, 2026

Earlier studies by archaeologist Miguel Delgado of the Universidad Nacional de La Plata in Argentina and Fehren-Schmitz provided detailed background on the skeleton itself.

From Science Daily Jan. 26, 2026

With the World Cup and the Olympics on the horizon, the city must continue to explore ways to protect both locals and the large number of tourists expected to arrive for those events, Plata said.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 21, 2025

Bobby thought he’d easily walk through the Mar Del Plata tournament until he learned that David Bronstein and Fridrik Olafsson were also going to play, in addition to the twenty-three-year-old grandmaster from Leningrad, Boris Spassky.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

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