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Southern Paiute

[ suhth-ern pahy-oot, pahy-oot ]

/ ˈsʌð ərn ˈpaɪ ut, paɪˈut /

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noun

a member of a group of North American Indians of the Uto-Aztecan family dwelling in Nevada, California, Utah, and northwestern Arizona.

See under Paiute (def. 2).

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Which one of these commonly confused words can act as an adverb or a pronoun?

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Words nearby Southern Paiute

southern lights, southernly, southernmost, Southern Ocean, southern oscillation, Southern Paiute, Southern Rhodesia, Southern Rhodesian, Southern Sotho, Southern Stars, southern toad

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Example sentences from the Web for Southern Paiute

In Afghanistan, there was a push to take back the southern province Helmand.
Pentagon Doesn’t Know How Many People It’s Killed in the ISIS War|Nancy A. Youssef|January 7, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Although Southern did not automatically equal neo-Confederate, at times the distinction could easily get lost.
Steve Scalise Shows There’s a Fine Line Between Confederate & Southern|Lloyd Green|January 2, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Yet all too often the line between Southern and Confederate can get blurred.
Steve Scalise Shows There’s a Fine Line Between Confederate & Southern|Lloyd Green|January 2, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Rather, it was the Democrats who initially were the Southern Party.
Steve Scalise Shows There’s a Fine Line Between Confederate & Southern|Lloyd Green|January 2, 2015|DAILY BEAST

We see the Southern segregationists who threatened his life and that of his family on an almost daily basis.
Dr. King Goes to Hollywood: The Flawed History of ‘Selma’|Gary May|January 2, 2015|DAILY BEAST
See how those distant peaks rise serenely over the southern horizon!
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846|Various
My mother now tells me that she knew of this mistake, an error of the New York paper in copying the item from a Southern journal.
The Boarded-Up House|Augusta Huiell Seaman
There was hardly to be found in all Southern Tennessee a more contented, shiftless, ill-bestead family than theirs.
Ramona|Helen Hunt Jackson
Miss Anne smiled kindly, not dreaming of his perplexity, amused by his Southern warmth.
The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol|William J. Locke
The last three years I've been in the Judith Basin, and southern outfits haven't begun to come in there yet.
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair

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