Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A Native American people inhabiting central Arizona.
- noun The Yuman language of the Yavapai.
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- noun the Yuman language spoken by the Yavapai
- noun a member of a North American Indian people of central Arizona
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Examples
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We in Yavapai County have to pay for the 30% of our jail population who are illegal.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Immigrants and Nazis, Communists and Cardinals 2010
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I couldn’t find precise statistics, but I’ve been told that the majority of the prison population in Yavapai county is brown – either Native or Mexican.
what really works my nerves about avatar. cimmerians 2010
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He had heard more or less about the doings of a sheriff in a neighboring county, called Yavapai, and his name was the same as that mentioned by the second dimly seen rider.
The Saddle Boys in the Grand Canyon or The Hermit of the Cave James Carson
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"Yavapai" was given in the Rio Colorado region of Arizona, and, naturally enough, it still survives.
The North American Indian Edward S. Curtis 1910
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Yavapai County Sheriff Steve Waugh announced that self-improvement guru James Ray was indicted Wednesday on three counts of manslaughter.
i'm feeling the new wave (ish) 80s, bbs. long live lir... angryblackbitch 2010
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It is hard enough when graduating for young people to find a job but if you were an employers and had two people you liked one from Yale the other from Yavapai college in Prescott AZ, who do you think the employer would choose.
Obama: Community colleges can help boost ailing economy 2009
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Yavapai County Attorney Sheila Polk and Pinal County Attorney James Walsh sent separate letters to the Arizona Republic, criticizing what they called “abuses of power” by Thomas and his close ally, Arpaio.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Downfall, the Sequel: Arpaio and Thomas Go Into the Bunker 2009
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Ali Reynolds is on the scene as the new media relations consultant for the Yavapai County Police Department, keeping reporters at bay and circumventing questions about arson and a link to a domestic terrorist group called Earth Liberation Front.
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Hardesty was arrested in 2005 after being stopped by police while driving in Yavapai County.
Arizona Supreme Court to decide whether there is a religious right to use marijuana 2009
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Orphaned when her family was brutally killed by Yavapai Indians, Oatman lived as a slave to her captors for a year before being traded to the Mohave, who tattooed her face and raised her as their own.
music bolmusic 2009
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