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  • noun Plural form of Uzbek.

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Examples

  • The question for Rustam and other fearful Uzbeks is whether the Kyrgyz mobs will return.

    Uzbek minority still faces persecution as Kyrgyzstan goes to polls Luke Harding 2010

  • A fragment of the empire was upheld with some glory by Sharokh, his youngest son; but after his decease, the scene was again involved in darkness and blood; and before the end of a century, Transoxiana and Persia were trampled by the Uzbeks from the north, and the Turkmans of the black and white sheep.

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

  • Uzbeks struggle or fleeWith the army and police composed almost entirely of ethnic Kyrgyz, the Uzbeks were the losers in what people in Osh now call simply '' the war. ''

    Ethnic Tensions Linger as Kyrgyzstan Prepares for Elections 2010

  • Uzbeks struggle or fleeWith the army and police composed almost entirely of ethnic Kyrgyz, the Uzbeks were the losers in what people in Osh now call simply '' the war. ''

    Ethnic Tensions Linger as Kyrgyzstan Prepares for Elections 2010

  • Uzbeks struggle or fleeWith the army and police composed almost entirely of ethnic Kyrgyz, the Uzbeks were the losers in what people in Osh now call simply '' the war. ''

    Ethnic Tensions Linger as Kyrgyzstan Prepares for Elections 2010

  • The aim is to convince the West that the Uzbeks are a vital cog against a common foe, that they should keep the assistance, especially military assistance, coming, and that they should mute the international criticism on human rights and economic reform.

    12/30/2005 2005

  • I think even the pro-torture types in our government might have trouble with boiling people alive, but the Uzbeks are our friends.

    "We don't speak to evil." Nancy Jane Moore 2006

  • I think even the pro-torture types in our government might have trouble with boiling people alive, but the Uzbeks are our friends.

    Archive 2006-10-08 Nancy Jane Moore 2006

  • But no more dramatic than the mobile-phone video a group of three young Kyrgyz men showed me in which a group of people, whom the Kyrgyz identified as Uzbeks, were using broomsticks to bat the severed head of a

    Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty 2010

  • But no more dramatic than the mobile-phone video a group of three young Kyrgyz men showed me in which a group of people, whom the Kyrgyz identified as Uzbeks, were using broomsticks to bat the severed head of a

    Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty 2010

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