Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. A group of Native American peoples inhabiting an area of the Coast Ranges of northern California.
- n. A member of this group.
- n. Any of the seven languages of the Pomo.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- proper n. An indigenous population native to Northern California.
- proper n. The family of languages of this people.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. a member of an Indian people of northern California living along the Russian River valley and adjacent Pacific coast
- n. the Kulanapan language spoken by the Pomo
Etymologies
Examples
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"Pomo" philosophers such as Derrida, Rorty, Foucault, Hacking, or Putnam would probably argue not that we haven't reached objectivity yet, but that it's a silly idea.
The View From Everywhere: Impartiality, Objectivity and Other Ideals
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I used a 26.48-ounce box of chopped 100 percent tomatoes Pomo brand from Italy
Meg Wolff: Quick Plant-Based Meal: One-Pot Powerhouse Chickpeas! (Wheat- & Gluten-Free)
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Programmed during Orientation Week, they are now fresh, submissive meat upon which the Pomo-Marxist-secularists can more easily work their evil will.
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B/C Pomo right-wingers use this dichotomy to say, hey, this balanced-piece from Washington Post journalist X is the liberal side and William Kristol is the conservative side.
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Hagège delights in describing, for example, a native American language known as central Pomo, which has "a completely original conception of objects", and "five different verbs . . . to designate the act of sitting down".
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The Native American Pomo people gathered in this place and they called it Sanel SHA -nel living in complete harmony with the land.
Teresa Rodriguez Williamson: California's Hidden Organic Wine Region
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This week's episode of Amazon Wire features an interview our former classical music (and books) editor Tom May and I (mostly Tom!) did with Alex Ross, the classical music critic for The New Yorker who, as we laugh about in the interview, was recently celebrated by one blogger in a post called (tongue just barely in cheek) "Pomo Pied Piper Saves the Western Canon."
An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs.
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On the side that didn't win was a Berkeley developer with plans for a billion dollar casino resort at the headlands, a small band of Pomo Indians hoping to break into urban gaming, and an even smaller band of environmentalists willing to cut a multi-million dollar deal with them just before Richmond was to vote on the casino.
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The are few more annoying features of our new Pomo overlords than their penchant for celebrating communication failure, and their evident imagination that a truly empathetic community can be maintained on such thin gruel.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Legal Ambiguity, Empathy, and the Role of Judicial Power:
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Pomo rhetoric becomes long on emotionalism, ad hominem, and so on, and it becomes short on logic and evidence.
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