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  • adjective Alternative form of Aracanese.

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Examples

  • Whether through a peaceful, well-managed transition or through a tumultuous or even anarchic one, the Karens and Shans in the east and the Chins and Arakanese in the west will likely see their power increased in a post-junta Burma.

    Lifting the Bamboo Curtain 2008

  • In 1997, after that trip inside Burma, he started the Free Burma Rangers, a relief group that has launched more than 300 humanitarian missions and has 43 small medical teams among the Karens, Karennis, Shans, Chins, Kachins, and Arakanese — across the parts of highland Burma that embrace on three sides the central Irrawaddy River valley, home to the majority Burmans.

    Lifting the Bamboo Curtain 2008

  • The other pipeline system will belong to India, which is spending $100 million to develop the Arakanese port of Sittwe as a trade window for its own landlocked, insurgency-roiled northeast.

    Lifting the Bamboo Curtain 2008

  • Given the energy stakes, he sees the struggles of the Karens, Shans, Arakanese, and other minorities as constituting the “theater of activity” for his lifetime, something that the Turner firings had denied him.

    Lifting the Bamboo Curtain 2008

  • In 1997, after that trip inside Burma, he started the Free Burma Rangers, a relief group that has launched more than 300 humanitarian missions and has 43 small medical teams among the Karens, Karennis, Shans, Chins, Kachins, and Arakanese — across the parts of highland Burma that embrace on three sides the central Irrawaddy River valley, home to the majority Burmans.

    Lifting the Bamboo Curtain 2008

  • Given the energy stakes, he sees the struggles of the Karens, Shans, Arakanese, and other minorities as constituting the “theater of activity” for his lifetime, something that the Turner firings had denied him.

    Lifting the Bamboo Curtain 2008

  • We have our own Chittagongian dialect — a mixture of Portuguese, Arakanese, Burmese, Bengali, and so on.

    Waterworld 2008

  • We have our own Chittagongian dialect — a mixture of Portuguese, Arakanese, Burmese, Bengali, and so on.

    Waterworld 2008

  • Whether through a peaceful, well-managed transition or through a tumultuous or even anarchic one, the Karens and Shans in the east and the Chins and Arakanese in the west will likely see their power increased in a post-junta Burma.

    Lifting the Bamboo Curtain 2008

  • The other pipeline system will belong to India, which is spending $100 million to develop the Arakanese port of Sittwe as a trade window for its own landlocked, insurgency-roiled northeast.

    Lifting the Bamboo Curtain 2008

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