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Talara

American  
[tah-lah-rah] / tɑˈlɑ rɑ /

noun

  1. a seaport in NW Peru.


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The vessel with the name Talara was heading through the Strait of Hormuz when it suddenly changed course towards Iranian waters.

From Barron's • Nov. 30, 2025

The Marshall Islands-flagged Talara stopped communicating at 8:22 a.m. local time Friday, the ship’s Cyprus-based manager, Columbia Shipmanagement, said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 14, 2025

Peru's state-run Petroperu also had won a tender to receive Ecuadorian crude in coming weeks for its Talara refinery, which is set to restart this year after an expansion project.

From Reuters • Jun. 29, 2022

Lane was a personal assistant to the actress and writer Carrie Fisher, and her fictional doppelgänger in this novel is 56-year-old Kathi Kannon, who starred as Priestess Talara in the film “Nova Quest.”

From New York Times • Jul. 28, 2020

And bursting into exclamations of grief, he wept upon the bosom of Talara his friend.

From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Melville, Herman