Uzbek
Americannoun
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Uzbeks,
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Uzbek
plural
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a member of a town-dwelling Turkic people of Turkestan and Uzbekistan.
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the Turkic language of the Uzbeks.
noun
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a member of a Mongoloid people of Uzbekistan
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the language of this people, belonging to the Turkic branch of the Altaic family
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Born in the Uzbek capital, he learned with his grandfather as his coach and soon became one of the fastest risers in chess history.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 6, 2026
A German teacher stands in front of Uzbek nursing students, rattling off health terms -- wheelchair, overweight, retired -- they will need to master before setting off for new jobs in Germany.
From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2025
"They were strangers, I can't identify their identity or language, but they seemed to be Uzbek or Chechen," Mr Fares told me by phone.
From BBC ● Mar. 9, 2025
Ani is Uzbek American and knows the language from her grandmother, but she’s barely proficient.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2024
As for the unpredictable Uzbek commander Dostum, Rasheed said no one knew where he would stand.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
There are now four Uzbeks in the top 50, including world No. 4 Nodirbek Abdusattorov.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 6, 2026
Persians, Parsis, Kurds, Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Tajiks, Kazakhs, Uzbeks and other cultures celebrate the festival and have their own traditions surrounding it.
From BBC ● Mar. 19, 2026
"We are trying to send Uzbeks to developed countries: Germany, Slovakia, Poland, South Korea, Japan, and we are negotiating with Finland, Norway, Canada and the United States," he said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2025
The Uzbeks beat Indonesia 2-0 in the semifinals on Monday in Doha, Qatar, and will face Japan for the title on Friday.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 29, 2024
That December, Pashtuns, Tajiks, Uzbeks, and Hazaras gathered in Bonn and, under the watchful eye of the UN, began the process that might someday end over twenty years of unhappiness in their watan.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
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