Sulu Sea

American

noun

a sea in the W Pacific, between the SW Philippines and Borneo.

Sulu Sea British

noun

part of the W Pacific between Borneo and the central Philippines

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It's one of a cluster of islands that make up the Agutaya archipelago, stranded in the middle of the Philippines' Sulu Sea.

From BBC • Jun. 9, 2023

And in July, after China launched the Wentian module, much of the booster burned up over the Sulu Sea, southeast of the Philippines.

From New York Times • Oct. 31, 2022

Erwin Villarias’s great-grandfather was one of seven men who climbed into a narrow wooden boat at Cagayancillo, a small island in the Sulu Sea, and set sail in search of . . . what exactly?

From Washington Post • Jul. 11, 2022

He had named the character after the Sulu Sea southwest of the Philippines, which Roddenberry said, “touches on several Asian shores.”

From Seattle Times • May 13, 2013

The tender was despatched to survey it, while I proceeded in the Vincennes to examine the more immediate entrance to the Sulu Sea, off the southwest end of Mindoro.

From The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes by Craig, Austin

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