Deira
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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In Dubai’s old commercial neighborhood, Deira, electronics wholesalers have scrambled to recruit Russian-speaking staff.
From New York Times • May 11, 2023
“His family’s only source of happiness, gone,” said a fellow courier in the working-class district of Deira, who declined to give his name for fear of reprisals.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 12, 2021
I think the most notable would be police Chief Deira Arradondo, who from the start dismissed what Chauvin did and called it “murder.”
From Slate • Apr. 12, 2021
Meanwhile, Palm Deira got as far as the base of the trunk before the rest of the tree was cancelled, its sorry stump since rebranded “Deira Islands”.
From The Guardian • Feb. 13, 2018
Deira, formation of the kingdom of, 36; is merged for a time in North-humberland, 41; accepts Christianity, 46; is finally merged in North-humberland, 48; Danish kingdom of, 62, 63.
From A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII by Gardiner, Samuel Rawson
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