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Examples
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"It's about time a 'boricua' made it as a manager, so good for him.
The Seattle Times 2010
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Dont be like congress, talk is cheap, actions last forever boricua
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We were looking for a real boricua like you to tell us how the two-language system works in PR.
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This is kind of what a lot of people call here the boricua style of campaigning.
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But he also participated in a political parade, Puerto Rico style, they call it boricua style, where you have a lot of music, maracas, a lot of enthusiasm, a big caravan, obviously trying to generate as many people as possible.
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I am a Puerto Rican American male and would think it to be pretty cool that the new Cap was a boricua, but just b/c the outfit slightly resembles the flag, that doesn't mean that he IS in fact a Rican....
Fun With Flags | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2007
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In honor of my quarter Lebanese roots I'm still 100% boricua, an Egyptian friend sent me a family recipe for shrimp.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Cindy Y. Rodriguez 2012
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Y también enfocamos en los trabajos de artistas mucho más jóvenes, que continúan la tradición: la cantautora mexicana Ceci Bastida, el dúo boricua Calle 13, y el rapero peruano Immortal Technique.
News 2011
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Aquí les dejamos un resumen de lo que se vivio en el gran duelo dominico-boricua La Revancha donde se enfrentaron el Lexus de Tony Peformance y el Trueno MOBIL 1 del team Meca-Fast de Isidoro de los Santos en el autódromo MOBIL 1, Imágenes cortesía de su Programa NOCHE DE VELOCIDAD MOBIL 1 recuerden todos los lunes a las 8 de la noche por CORAL 39.
WN.com - Articles related to Toyota va payer l'amende record aux Etats-Unis 2010
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Aquí les dejamos un resumen de lo que se vivio en el gran duelo dominico-boricua La Revancha donde se enfrentaron el Lexus de Tony Peformance y el Trueno MOBIL 1 del team Meca-Fast de Isidoro de los Santos en el autódromo MOBIL 1, Imágenes cortesía de su Programa NOCHE DE VELOCIDAD MOBIL 1 recuerden todos los lunes a las 8 de la noche por CORAL 39.
WN.com - Articles related to Toyota va payer l'amende record aux Etats-Unis 2010
john commented on the word boricua
“Children are taught from a young age that ‘hurricane’ is Taíno in origin, from the word ‘huracán,’ while no Latin pop music concert is complete without a shout out to Boricuas — those from Borinquen, the Taíno name for Puerto Rico, which means ‘land of the brave noble lord.’�?
The New York Times, Tradition Counts More Than Beauty at a Pageant, by Damien Cave, December 1, 2008
December 3, 2008