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Victorio

American  
[vik-tawr-ee-oh, -tohr-] / vɪkˈtɔr iˌoʊ, -ˈtoʊr- /

noun

  1. 1809?–80, leader of the Chiricahua Apache tribe.


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The army has allowed five digs to disprove “the Legend of Victorio Peak.”

From New York Times Nov. 4, 2022

Some never lost their wariness toward Beutner, but others gradually softened — including Principal Victorio Gutierrez, who got to know the superintendent from his visits to Simon Rodia High School in South Gate.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 25, 2021

Lozen An Apache warrior and prophetess, Lozen was the sister of the great chief Victorio, living in Arizona in the mid 19th century.

From The Guardian Aug. 23, 2015

Tony Watt gives away a free kick for an unfair challenge on Victorio Maxi Pereira.

From BBC Nov. 20, 2012

Captain Roque Carnicero and his six men left with Colonel Aureliano Buendía to free the revolutionary general Victorio Medina, who had been condemned to death in Riohacha.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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