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- proper noun The
Japanese underworld , in which horrible creatures guard the exits.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Her family ends up seizing pretty much all of Yomi's stuff, including her home and sword, and then she calls Yomi out to finish the job, but starts shaking off the Gem again (unfortunately for her, after ranting about how much she hates Yomi and killer her father), letting Yomi get the upper hand.
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As for the rope itself, part of it was changed into the long island of ancient times [5] called Yomi-ga-hama, and a part into the Long Beach of Sono.
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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Meet the child prodigy Chiyo, the animal-loving Sakaki, the spacey out-of-towner Osaka, the straight-laced Yomi and her best friend Tomo, and the sports-loving Kagura throughout their high school lives.
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Meet the child prodigy Chiyo, the animal-loving Sakaki, the spacey out-of-towner Osaka, the straight-laced Yomi and her best friend Tomo, and the sports-loving Kagura throughout their high school lives.
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For Yomi Adegboye of Mobility Nigeria, the improvements GLO-1 promises can't come soon enough:
Global Voices in English » Nigeria: New Submarine Internet Cable Lands in Lagos 2009
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The civil lawsuit, filed in federal court in Manhattan, alleges that three Swiss firms, including two controlled by Yomi Rodrig , a Turkish national living in Geneva, made "highly profitable and suspicious" stock purchases, acquiring hundreds of thousands of shares of Arch in the days before Lonza Group AG said on July 11 that it would acquire Arch for $1.2 billion in cash.
SEC Sues 3 Firms Over Trading in Arch Chemicals Deal Chad Bray 2011
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This tunnel, with its massive carving of an eight-headed serpent, was the Hall of Orochi, and this hellish underground landscape was Yomi.
THE 5 GREATEST WARRIORS MATTHEW REILLY 2010
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“Yomi is the name given to the underworld in Japanese mythology, like Hades or Tartarus . . .”
THE 5 GREATEST WARRIORS MATTHEW REILLY 2010
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This tunnel, with its massive carving of an eight-headed serpent, was the Hall of Orochi, and this hellish underground landscape was Yomi.
THE 5 GREATEST WARRIORS MATTHEW REILLY 2010
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In the earliest written texts, it was the Land of Yomi the land of the dead where ancestral spirits ascended into the layers of mountains that stretched to the sea.
Japan's Old Roads Paul Baylis 2010
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