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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A city of southern Nigeria northeast of Port Harcourt. It is an important market and transportation center.

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Examples

  • The effort is called "Aba Grangou," Haitian Creole for "Down With Hunger," and will enlist 10,000 workers to fan out across the nation.

    SFGate: Don Asmussen: Bad Reporter 2012

  • The effort is called "Aba Grangou," Haitian Creole for "Down With Hunger," and will enlist 10,000 workers to fan out across the nation.

    www.startribune.com 2012

  • Mr. Barnett says Aba, which is known as Ngawa in Tibetan, remained off limits to tourists long after they were permitted to first visit other parts of China, including Tibet, through the 1980s and 1990s.

    Clampdown on Tibet Squeezes Tourist Destinations 2008

  • The GuardianA still image from a Guardian video filmed inside the town of Aba, which is under lockdown by Chinese security forces after a string of self-immolations by protesters.

    NYT > Home Page By J. DAVID GOODMAN 2012

  • The abbot, Kirti Rinpoche, 70, said that the Chinese authorities had completely isolated the monastery, Kirti, in a restive area of Sichuan Province's Ganzi prefecture known as Aba, or Ngaba in Tibetan.

    NYT > Home Page By RICK GLADSTONE 2011

  • He urged the government to eradicate kidnapping to save businesses in Aba, which is 10 kilometres from Obingwa.

    AllAfrica News: Latest 2010

  • I have Umuahia, the capital city and Aba, which is a complex place.

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  • I have Umuahia, the capital city and Aba, which is a complex place.

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  • We have one in Aba, which is Abia State University Teaching Hospital; we almost finished refurbishing Amachara General Hospital to the status of a teaching hospital.

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  • We have one in Aba, which is Abia State University Teaching Hospital; we almost finished refurbishing Amachara General Hospital to the status of a teaching hospital.

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