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Albuquerque

[ al-buh-kur-kee; Portuguese awl-boo-ker-kuh ]

noun

  1. Af·fon·so de [uh, -, fawn, -s, oo, d, uh], 1453–1515, founder of the Portuguese empire in the East.
  2. a city in central New Mexico.


Albuquerque

1

/ ɑlbuˈkɛrkə; ˈælbəˌkɜːkɪ /

noun

  1. AlbuquerqueAfonso de14531515MPortugueseTRAVEL AND EXPLORATION: navigator Afonso de (əˈfõsu dəː). 1453–1515, Portuguese navigator who established Portuguese colonies in the East by conquering Goa, Ceylon, Malacca, and Ormuz
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


Albuquerque

2

/ ˈælbəˌkɜːkɪ /

noun

  1. a city in central New Mexico, on the Rio Grande. Pop: 471 856 (2003 est)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Albuquerque

  1. Largest city in New Mexico .


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Example Sentences

It’s been a hot summer in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where my partner and I live.

Drawn into the criminal underworld, Walter first faces off with low-level drug dealers, then slowly begins to work his way up the food chain of Albuquerque lawbreakers.

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While Luján’s congressional district consists of the northernmost part of the state, he’s currently enjoying a 20-point advantage in the Albuquerque metro area.

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To really drill into the numbers, Sanchez says, look at the greater Albuquerque area, the state’s most populated region, which is key to any statewide victory.

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Diana Fleischman is an evolutionary psychologist at the University of Portsmouth, writing and living while on sabbatical in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Albuquerque Economic Development, a private non-profit, estimates the five year growth rate at almost double the U.S. in general.

A second source inside the Albuquerque VA, a medical technician, said the facility provided high quality care.

Now a small band of Dylan sleuths led by an Albuquerque disc jockey may finally have found the key…but, to what?

Doing some digging, the author found that Jorgenson was a circus performer and a prominent unicyclist in Albuquerque.

In the spring of 2011, I spent two days on the set of Breaking Bad in Albuquerque, N.M.

Did you write to Denver that you had secured the pearls and were going to carry them with you as far as Albuquerque?

She did not remember where Albuquerque was, though Knight had pointed it out on the map; and she did not care to remember.

She wondered when they would arrive at Albuquerque, wondered, yet did not want to know.

And at dinner that evening she forced herself to ask, "Do we get to Albuquerque to-night?"

I leave a son behind me, Blas de Albuquerque, whom I entreat your highness to promote in recompence of my services.

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