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  • Their four oldest children were last night on their way back to Zimbabwe from their homes in Australia and South Africa, while ordinary Zimbabweans from Harare and beyond where making a pilgrimage to the Tsvangirais 'home to pay their respects to the family of the woman they called amai -- mother -- of Zimbabwe.

    Mail & Guardian Online 2009

  • All of this helps cultivate what the Japanese call amai, the sense of being cherished that children attain when raised lovingly.

    How To See The Glass Half Full 2007

  • Zimbabweans looked to Susan, a churchgoing Methodist full of restraint, as a future "amai" (mother) in the Sally mould.

    unknown title 2009

  • Daniel Lewin, 31 years old, co-founder of A.amai Technologies, Garnett Bailey -- his friends called him A.e -- director of scouting for the L.A. Kings, the National Hockey League.

    CNN Transcript Sep 11, 2001 2001

  • That my favourite "Ariadne" has been successful at Schottenhof is delightful news to me, but I recommend Fraulein Peperl to articulate the words clearly, especially in the words "Che tanto amai."

    Joseph Haydn Hadden, J Cuthbert 1902

  • He accounts for love at first sight by a previous state of existence -- la dove io t 'amai prima.

    The Renaissance: studies in art and poetry Walter Pater 1866

  • "Two for a dollar, amai" (mother), the vendors shout.

    Christian Science Monitor | All Stories 2010

  • The office began to disappear around us as the reset amai bid us off with "Thank you for thinking InTek reality, enjoy us again soon!"

    manybooks.net 2010

  • "Two for a dollar, amai" (mother), the vendors shout.

    Christian Science Monitor | All Stories 2010

  • Today's topic: Ukawana amai vemudzimai / musikana / murume / mukomana wako vachitemana nemumwe murume asiri wavo, unotaurira mumwe wako here?

    Zimbabwe Telegraph and ZimDaily Forums 2009

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