llano
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We wanna go down to the llano to see if they practice homogamy, but dunno how to get there.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 16, 2021
Besides Fruehaufs highballing twice daily to Calabozo, Arocha had ten white-painted DC-3s flying chilled beef to the capital from distant llano towns like Ciudad Bolivar, on the Orinoco, and San Fernando de Apure.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Accept my aegis, Reyna Ramirez-Are llano, said the voice.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
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She could not see beauty in the llano and she could not understand the coarse men who lived half their lifetimes on horseback.
From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya
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The llano had come alive with spring, and it was comforting to walk in the hills and see the new birth take root and come-alive-green.
From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya
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Dr. Walschburger stepped right through them as savanna hawks and caracaras, two common birds of prey on the llanos, swooped excitedly over the smoldering pasture, hunting escaping rodents and reptiles.
From New York Times ● Jan. 16, 2024
“We want to showcase the great diversity” of llanos culture, Ms. Veydó said.
From New York Times ● Jan. 16, 2024
But in recent weeks, officials said, he had been pining to come home and listening to music from the his boyhood home in the "llanos" or plains in central Venezuela.
From Reuters ● Feb. 22, 2013
The invitation was as irresistible as it was unexpected to the 18 nomadic Cuiba Indians who had been wandering the llanos, the vast prairies that stretch from the Andes to the Orinoco River.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Like this, too, ubiquitous—seen today scouring the sandy plains of the Platte, to-morrow bounding over the broad llanos of Texas, a thousand miles to the southward!
From The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse by Mayne Reid
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Physical Geography - Middle School
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