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  • noun Plural form of safari.

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Examples

  • I'm sorry, but 75 safaris is about 74 more than the average F&S or Hunting Magazine reader could ever afford.

    Two Books You Gotta Have 2008

  • I would like to also clarify my comments on C. B.First, he has been on many safaris, which is prudent for a writer who pounds the keys on the subject.

    Two Books You Gotta Have 2008

  • First, Norplant was diffused through intensive local campaigns called safaris in which policemen, local political leaders, and military forces participated in an all-out effort to gain adopters of the new contraceptive in each community in Indonesia.

    Diffusion of Innovations Everett M. Rogers 2003

  • First, Norplant was diffused through intensive local campaigns called safaris in which policemen, local political leaders, and military forces participated in an all-out effort to gain adopters of the new contraceptive in each community in Indonesia.

    Diffusion of Innovations Everett M. Rogers 2003

  • My father, who had never had children, was delighted at the birth of my brother, sister, and me, and our bedtime stories were full of real-life accounts of my father's travels, such as safaris from Capetown to Cairo in search of new trees.

    Helen Davey: Orphaned By Job Loss: The Rise And Fall Of Pan Am And The Traumatic Impact On Its Employees 2010

  • Yet that was the year white liberals and business potentates from Johannesburg began what were called "safaris" to places like Lusaka and Dakar for meetings with Mbeki and his colleagues.

    How Mbeki Failed Lelyveld, Joseph 2009

  • Most prominent among these was Frederik van Zyl Slabbert, a brainy, telegenic former leader of the liberal opposition in the white Parliament who organized the earliest "safaris" to bring influential whites into contact with the outlawed movement.

    How Mbeki Failed Lelyveld, Joseph 2009

  • Increasing in popularity are the "safaris" offered into the mountainous interior.

    BellaOnline - The Voice of Women 2010

  • Another key incentive consistently absent during presidential "safaris" to Africa is global business.

    AllAfrica News: Latest 2009

  • Yet that was the year white liberals and business potentates from Johannesburg began what were called "safaris" to places like Lusaka and Dakar for meetings with Mbeki and his colleagues.

    The New York Review of Books 2009

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