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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A river, about 3,000 km (1,900 mi) long, rising in southwest Colorado and flowing generally south through central New Mexico to southwest Texas, where it turns southeast and forms the US-Mexico border for the rest of its course. It empties into the Gulf of Mexico near Brownsville, Texas, and Matamoros, Mexico.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a North American river; boundary between the United States and Mexico; flows into Gulf of Mexico
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After driving about some time and nearly running on a dangerous coast, they came at last to the mouth of a great river which they called Rio Grande,
Prince Henry the Navigator, the Hero of Portugal and of Modern Discovery, 1394-1460 A.D. With an Account of Geographical Progress Throughout the Middle Ages As the Preparation for His Work. C. Raymond Beazley 1911
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We all agreed to this, and appointed to go away ourselves towards the Rio de la Plata, where we had thought of going before, and to wait for him, not there, but at Port St Pedro, as the Spaniards call it, lying at the mouth of the river which they call Rio Grande, and where the Spaniards had a small fort and a few people, but we believe there was nobody in it.
The Life, Adventures & Piracies of the Famous Captain Singleton Daniel Defoe 1696
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It's an unquestionably tragic story: Ciudad Juárez, the largest city found on the opposite side of the river we call the Rio Grande (in Mexico it is called the Río Bravo del Norte), has since 1993 seen the murder or disappearance of hundreds of young women, many of them workers in the large maquiladoras set up in the wake of the NAFTA agreement.
GreenCine Daily 2009
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Depending on how it is measured, the Rio Grande is the twenty-second longest river in the world and the fourth or fifth longest in North America.
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Depending on how it is measured, the Rio Grande is the twenty-second longest river in the world and the fourth or fifth longest in North America.
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The next town is called Rio Grande, and it's pronounced "R-eye-oh Grand."
Fred Graver: Knocking on Ohio's Door -- My Amazing Weekend 2008
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But south of El Paso, as it flows through one of the emptiest regions of America, the Rio Grande is a war zone, and long has been.
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Republican House candidate and former reality TV show contestant Raj Peter Bhakta believes riding an elephant across the Rio Grande is the way to take a seat away from the Democrats.
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The Rio Grande is the only thing that divides the two Laredos.
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St - Denis, adventurous and enterprising, met with remarkable success and the trail known as the old San Antonio road from Nacogdoches to the Rio Grande was the artery through which commerce flowed between the nations.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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