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Samarra

American  
[suh-mahr-uh] / səˈmɑr ə /

noun

  1. a town in central Iraq, on the Tigris: seat of the early Abassid caliphs.


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The address will seek to restore confidence in the Fed’s commitment to taming inflation, and ease concerns that the absence of forward guidance will undermine stability, Samarra Hammoud, FX strategist at CBA, said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

Associate art director Samarra Khaja, a longtime vegetarian, admitted that “a regular hot dog generally skeeves me out,” but she would buy her Field Roast Signature Stadium Dogs again.

From Salon ● Apr. 16, 2024

To solve this problem, al-Mutasim moved his capital from Baghdad to Samarra in northern Mesopotamia in order to segregate the Turkic soldiers from the rest of the population.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

They recently rode to Samarra, where one of the worst sectarian attacks of the war happened in 2006, a bombing that damaged the city’s 1,000-year-old grand mosque.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 16, 2023

I get out and walk toward the woman sitting at the entrance reading a novel called Appointment in Samarra.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

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