Taos
Americannoun
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Taos
plural
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a Tanoan language spoken in two villages in New Mexico.
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a member of an American Indian people occupying a pueblo in New Mexico.
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a town in N New Mexico: resort; art colony.
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Several months after he passed, she drove his pickup truck from their retirement home in Mexico to Taos, New Mexico.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
During the 1990s, reports began appearing in the United States, initially in Taos, New Mexico and Kokomo, Indiana.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 19, 2026
Yet one magnetic painting is atypical of that first stay in the Taos area: a striking ponderosa pine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026
The Southern California-based brand Casetta has opened four redone Southern California motels and hotels, with two more opening soon in Los Angeles and Taos, N.M.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2025
At about one-thirty on Tuesday afternoon, Holly Goldsmith, an eighteen-year-old freshman from Taos, New Mexico, decided to take her golden retriever, Milo, for a walk.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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