Sonora
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
- Sonoran adjective
Example Sentences
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A former migrant farm worker, Noriega immigrated to the United States from Sonora, Mexico, in the 1950s.
From Los Angeles Times
And the closing “Sonora” is a spirited epic with a gliding beat and a modal jam that sounds like the instrumental coda from the Who’s “Baba O’Riley” played by an early iteration of Kraftwerk.
Sánchez and the officers protecting him had left Hermosillo, the capital of the state of Sonora, before sunrise on June 23 and by 7 a.m. had arrived in Altar.
From Los Angeles Times
The Sonora state public security secretariat said it had ruled out the possibility it was an attack or act of deliberate violence against civilians.
From BBC
The prosecutor's office in the northern state of Sonora said in a statement that "the working assumption is that the incident was accidental, and the investigation is looking into a transformer located inside the store."
From Barron's
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