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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

Debris from the second flight landed harmlessly in the Indian Ocean, while remnants from the third fell into the Sulu Sea in the Philippines.

From Reuters Nov. 4, 2022

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

Carrier pigeons would serve a useful purpose in a remote place like the Sulu Sea, and one could have reached the channel from Zamboanga after they departed.

From The Pirates of Shan by Goodwin, Harold L. (Harold Leland)

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