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

  • A river rising in western Russia and flowing about 1,050 km (650 mi) through eastern Ukraine to join the Don River.

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Examples

  • The Donets was the first to vanish from our sight, after it the

    The Bishop and Other Stories Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 1882

  • Using Arena suits, the Russian team of Stanislav Donets, Sergey Geybel, Evgeny Korotyshkin and Alexander Sukhorukov took the IM relay in 3: 24.29.

    Final count at swim worlds: 18 international records 2008

  • In the 1990s, it was also successfully used in the Dnieper-Donets Basin between Russia and Ukraine in areas considered barren.

    Peak Oil - True or False 2008

  • “The most important aim to be achieved before the onset of winter is not to capture Moscow,” said his directive of August 21, “but to seize the Crimea and the industrial and coal region on the Donets, and to cut off the Russian oil supply from the Caucasus area.”

    The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008

  • “The most important aim to be achieved before the onset of winter is not to capture Moscow,” said his directive of August 21, “but to seize the Crimea and the industrial and coal region on the Donets, and to cut off the Russian oil supply from the Caucasus area.”

    The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008

  • In the 1990s, it was also successfully used in the Dnieper-Donets Basin between Russia and Ukraine in areas considered barren.

    Peak Oil - True or False 2008

  • “Yes, always first both on the grassland and here,” answered Rostov, stroking his heated Donets horse.

    War and Peace 2003

  • He had a look at all the details of the hunt, sent a pack of hounds and huntsmen on ahead to find the quarry, mounted his chestnut Donets, and whistling to his own leash of borzois, set off across the threshing ground to a field leading to the Otradnoe wood.

    War and Peace 2003

  • Alexei Stakhanov, a Donets miner, developed a new extraction method.

    1935 2001

  • In its new positions on the far side of the Donets the 11th Panzer Regiment had available thirty-nine panzers.

    Panzer Aces Kurowski, Franz 1992

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