Definitions
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- proper noun Alternative spelling of
Uyghur .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the script (derived from Aramaic) used to write the Uighur language
- noun the Turkic language spoken by approximately 7,000,000 Uighur in extreme northwestern China
- noun a member of a people who speak Uighur and live in Xinjiang and adjacent areas
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Examples
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Cenk Uygur is joining MSNBC as a contributor and substitute anchor, the network announced today.
Cenk Uygur Joins MSNBC The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Xinjiang is about one-sixth of China's landmass and has a population of about 21 million, around 60% of which consists of ethnic groups, such as Uygur, Kazak and Uzbek.
Energy Tribune 2010
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Howard Kurtz, CNN media correspondent and the Daily Beast's Washington bureau chief, attacked him in an interview and numerous bloggers accused Uygur of mistaking the personal for the political.
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Uygur gangs rushed to every Han Chinese they saw and cut their throats in groups of 7 and 8.
Global Voices in English » China: Call for tough response and resent of biased media 2009
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It covers politics and culture and Uygur boasts that its one million views a day puts it on a par with a lot of the cable news shows.
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Yet Uygur's story is not just about the style and tone of the American media and the issue of outside interests and "access journalism".
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Cenk Uygur provides additional detailed analysis on how Fox News refuses to uphold any journalistic integrity.
Robert Greenwald: Seven Years After Outfoxed, Murdoch's Empire Continues Corruption Robert Greenwald 2011
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A journalist noted down what he experienced after the interview of Uygur women protesting for their missing husbands and sons who are said to be arrested:
Global Voices in English » China: Call for tough response and resent of biased media 2009
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Cenk Uygur provides additional detailed analysis on how Fox News refuses to uphold any journalistic integrity.
Robert Greenwald: Seven Years After Outfoxed, Murdoch's Empire Continues Corruption Robert Greenwald 2011
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Although the official media keeps appealing for national and ethnic solidarity, the pictures and coverage of the riot presented to most Chinese indicate it is nothing but a hate crime directed at Han Chinese by Uygur gangs.
Global Voices in English » China: Call for tough response and resent of biased media 2009
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