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- noun slang A term for a
Salvadoran person born or raised in the United States. Mainly used in areas of high Salvadoran populations.
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Examples
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He knows some of his patrons are monsters, but evidence surfaces that one of his clients, mobster Gino Salvi is sexually attacking young girls before he kills them in Flemington, New Hampshire.
Legally Dead- Edna Buchanan « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews 2008
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Benedict XVI puts it in his encyclical Spe Salvi: 'Jesus was not
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It's called an "air plant"—or Tillandsia—a family of plants that has seen a resurgence in popularity in the past couple of years as a home décor item tucked into glass cubes or candle holders, says Mike Salvi , owner of Russell's Bromeliads, a Clermont, Fla., grower and distributor of the plants.
Greenery, With Hints of the Forest and Desert Anne Marie Chaker 2011
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Mr. Salvi started selling the plants on crystal-beaded hangers last holiday season to garden centers and other retailers who thought they would be popular decorations.
Greenery, With Hints of the Forest and Desert Anne Marie Chaker 2011
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He also represented John C. Salvi III, convicted of shooting up two Massachusetts abortion clinics in 1994.
Judge Rules That Bulger Can Use Public Defender Jennifer Levitz 2011
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Like Benedict's earlier letter Spe Salvi (2007), Caritas in Veritate is also eschatological, and this is another litmus test of thoroughly revelation-grounded thinking.
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Carney has represented a long list of high-profile defendants, including John Salvi III, who was convicted of killing two people and wounding five others in a shooting rampage at two Planned Parenthood clinics in Brookline, Mass., in 1994.
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All of this, of course, is addressed far more eloquently and with profound insight by Pope Benedict XVI in Spe Salvi (which came out after my article, otherwise I would have referenced it many times):
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Carney has represented a long list of high-profile defendants, including John Salvi III, who was convicted of killing two people and wounding five others in a shooting rampage at two Planned Parenthood clinics in Brookline, Mass., in 1994.
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Benedict XVI puts it in his encyclical Spe Salvi: 'Jesus was not
Read on new novel: "it's about the battle between liberal and conservative Catholics" 2009
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