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- noun Plural form of
Cape Verdean .
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Examples
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Every Cape Verdean has their own recipe for jagacida, the traditional rice-and-bean dish that Cape Verdeans call “jag,” and serve with fish stews.
One Big Table Molly O’Neill 2010
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One tenth of black Americans are now immigrants or the children of immigrants, as African Americans have been joined by West Indians, Haitians, Cape Verdeans, and Africans.
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One tenth of black Americans are now immigrants or the children of immigrants, as African Americans have been joined by West Indians, Haitians, Cape Verdeans, and Africans.
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CIDADE DA PRAIA, Cape Verde - Nearly 10,000 Cape Verdeans have been infected by cholera and 221 have died in an epidemic stretching into its 10th month, the health ministry said.
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Do Massachusetts residents who happen to be "African-Americans, Hispanics, certain Southeast Asians, and Cape Verdeans, Brazilians, and other Portuguese speakers" care whether the doctors who treat them are from the same group they are, or whether the medical profession in the state has percentages of doctors that match the percentages of these racial and linguistic groups?
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Do Massachusetts residents who happen to be "African-Americans, Hispanics, certain Southeast Asians, and Cape Verdeans, Brazilians, and other Portuguese speakers" care whether the doctors who treat them are from the same group they are, or whether the medical profession in the state has percentages of doctors that match the percentages of these racial and linguistic groups?
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In December 1974, the PAIGC and Portugal signed an agreement providing for a transitional government composed of Portuguese and Cape Verdeans.
unknown title 2009
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Periodic droughts starting in the 1970s have forced thousands of job-seeking Cape Verdeans overseas, followed by more job seekers and adventurers, said the UN's top official in Cape Verde, Petra Lantz.
IRIN 2009
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Nevertheless, in 1956, Amilcar Cabral, a Cape Verdean, and a group of Cape Verdeans and Guinea-Bissauans organized (in Guinea-Bissau) the clandestine African Party for the Independence of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde (PAIGC), which demanded improvement in economic, social, and political conditions in Cape Verde and Portuguese Guinea and formed the basis of the two nations 'independence movement.
unknown title 2009
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Nevertheless, in 1956, Amilcar Cabral, a Cape Verdean, and a group of Cape Verdeans and Guinea-Bissauans organized (in Guinea-Bissau) the clandestine African Party for the Independence of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde (PAIGC), which demanded improvement in economic, social, and political conditions in Cape Verde and Portuguese Guinea and formed the basis of the two nations 'independence movement.
unknown title 2009
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