Zapata

[ zuh-pah-tuh; Spanish sah-pah-tah ]

/ zəˈpɑ tə; Spanish sɑˈpɑ tɑ /

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noun

E·mi·lia·no

[e-mee-lyah-naw], /ˌɛ miˈlyɑ nɔ/, 1877?–1919, Mexican revolutionary and agrarian reformer: guerrilla leader 1911–16.

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Zanu PF, zany, Zanzibar, Zanzibari, zap, Zapata, Zapata, Emiliano, Zapata mustache, zapateado, zapateo, Zapopan

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How to use Zapata in a sentence

Both men immediately went into armed rebellion against their former allies — Zapata in the south and Villa in the north.
Along the border, echoes of revolution and Pancho Villa|Matthew Simpson|July 2, 2021|Washington Post
The pattern is as close to perfect as Zapata’s team could have hoped to see.
Quantum computing is entering a new dimension|rhhackettfortune|December 3, 2020|Fortune
With its bars-and-stripes experiment, Zapata’s team must wait hours to receive the final results from Honeywell’s computer, which, in these early days of quantum, is painfully slow.
Quantum computing is entering a new dimension|rhhackettfortune|December 3, 2020|Fortune
Zapata was cofounded in Boston in 2017 by Alán Aspuru-Guzik, a leading researcher in quantum chemistry who was at Harvard University and is now at the University of Toronto, and members of his research lab.
Startup debuts software to help any company use ‘quantum algorithms’|Jeremy Kahn|September 24, 2020|Fortune

Many of these are focused on financial portfolio optimization, and BBVA has worked with Zapata’s Orquestra to help run these tests.
Startup debuts software to help any company use ‘quantum algorithms’|Jeremy Kahn|September 24, 2020|Fortune
Villa and Zapata looked on, smiling their papier mache smiles, sure they had seen something like this before.
Mexican Protesters Look to Start a New Revolution|Jason McGahan|November 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The faces of Villa and Zapata looked on from the opposite end of the square.
Mexican Protesters Look to Start a New Revolution|Jason McGahan|November 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST
On June 11, 1958, many individuals were calling from shallow water in a flooded field at Emiliano Zapata.
The Amphibians and Reptiles of Michoacn, Mxico|William E. Duellman
Zapata relates what is evidently the exploit which brought to a close the promising career of this enterprising knave.
A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 4|Henry Charles Lea
On the south coast, directly opposite Matanzas, lies a vast swamp known as the Cienega de Zapata.
Cuba, Old and New|Albert Gardner Robinson
In the swamp known as the Cienega de Zapata are both alligators and crocodiles, some of them of quite imposing dimensions.
Cuba, Old and New|Albert Gardner Robinson
Don Marcos Zapata went to attack them, and killed thirty and captured thirty others.
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 29 of 55|Various

British Dictionary definitions for Zapata

Zapata

/ (zəˈpɑːtə, Spanish θaˈpata) /

noun

Emiliano (emiˈljano). ?1877–1919, Mexican guerrilla leader

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