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  • proper noun A Bantoid language spoken in Cameroon.

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Examples

  • TRUDEAU: Abar also asked the teens about their parents 'drinking.

    With Drinking, Parent Rules Do Affect Teens' Choices 2010

  • And what, may I ask, of “Abar, the First Black Superman” 1977?

    DIDDY STILL WON’T SHUT UP ABOUT BOND 2008

  • Even Thom admitted that Balat and Abar were good, and they were popular with the other performers, so finding them places to stay was easy, but that tent cost as much as the wagon had!

    Knife of Dreams Jordan, Robert, 1948- 2005

  • The country then becomes Abar (in Arabic Jahr,) a place of famine: the Nomads migrate to the low plains, where pasture is procurable.

    First footsteps in East Africa 2003

  • Alfred was reminded of the time-another time-in Abar-rach, when he'd healed Haplo, against his will.

    The Seventh Gate Hickman, Tracy, 1955- 1994

  • The words he spoke were Sartan words, but-as Alfred had discovered when he had first visited Abar-rach'they conjured up images of death and suffering, images that Ramu found quite distasteful.

    The Seventh Gate Hickman, Tracy, 1955- 1994

  • The sigla on the arms and hands of both Patryns glowed with a blue-red light that was not entirely acting in response to the poisonous atmosphere of Abar-rach.

    Into the Labyrinth Hickman, Tracy 1993

  • The country then becomes Abar (in Arabic Jahr,) a place of famine: the Nomads migrate to the low plains, where pasture is procurable.

    First Footsteps in East Africa Richard Francis Burton 1855

  • Research studies by Wood, Abar and others challenge the common parenting practice in much of Europe where kids are socialized to drink at the family table, with the expectation that they'll learn to drink responsibly.

    NPR Topics: News 2010

  • "The parents who are more accepting of teen drinking in high school were more likely to have children who engaged in risky drinking behaviors in college, compared to those children who had parents that were less accepting," Abar says.

    NPR Topics: News 2010

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