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Sulu Sea

American  

noun

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


Sulu Sea British  

noun

  1. part of the W Pacific between Borneo and the central Philippines

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

The Chinese vessel “did not follow a track that can be considered as continuous and expeditious, lingering in the Sulu Sea for three days,” the foreign affairs department said.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 14, 2022

To his second officer he had expressed a desire for a typhoon that would roll the deadlights out of his boat, and blow the hyphenated “garden truck” into the Sulu Sea.

From The Locusts' Years by Fee, Mary Helen

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