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Somoza

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[saw-maw-sah, suh-moh-zuh, -moh-suh] / sɔˈmɔ sɑ, səˈmoʊ zə, -ˈmoʊ sə /

noun

  1. Anastasio Anastasio Somoza García, 1896–1956, Nicaraguan political leader: president 1937–47, 1950–56 (father of Anastasio and Luis Somoza Debayle).


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A team led by Melanie Köhler and Veronika Somoza from the Leibniz-Institute for Food Systems Biology has presented a new research approach in the journal Nature Food.

From Science Daily • May 29, 2024

Officials with the Long Beach Unified School District have distributed 180,000 Chromebooks since 2016, and the technology staff is optimistic about the extended lifetime, district spokesperson Evelyn Somoza said.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 22, 2023

Between 1967 and 1974, Ortega himself was imprisoned by Nicaragua’s Somoza family dictatorship.

From Washington Post • Apr. 5, 2023

A stream of regional leaders have called the state home, at least for a time, over the past half century, from Haiti’s Prosper Avril to Nicaragua’s Anastasio Somoza to Panama’s Manuel Noriega.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 9, 2023

Somoza was long gone, the contras were nothing but a memory.

From "The Book of Unknown Americans" by Cristina Henríquez

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