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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of southeast Democratic Republic of the Congo near the Zambia border. Founded in 1910, it was the center of a secessionist state during the 1960–1963 civil war.
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- proper noun A large city in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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- noun a city in southeastern Congo near the border with Zambia; a copper mining center; former name (until 1966) was Elisabethville
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Examples
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While working in Lubumbashi, my companion was your book about the way our brain can fail to perceive the most obvious objects.
The World Science Festival: Oliver Sacks at the MET - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Many Chinese fortune seekers had hired African work gangs to dig for copper, sometimes even in Lubumbashi’s red-clay streets.
The Next Empire 2010
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Many Chinese fortune seekers had hired African work gangs to dig for copper, sometimes even in Lubumbashi’s red-clay streets.
The Next Empire 2010
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Gilbert Malemba N’Sakila, a former law-school dean in Lubumbashi, expressed similar doubts: The Chinese are not even making use of Congolese talent.
The Next Empire 2010
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Many Chinese fortune seekers had hired African work gangs to dig for copper, sometimes even in Lubumbashi’s red-clay streets.
The Next Empire 2010
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Gilbert Malemba N’Sakila, a former law-school dean in Lubumbashi, expressed similar doubts: The Chinese are not even making use of Congolese talent.
The Next Empire 2010
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Gilbert Malemba N’Sakila, a former law-school dean in Lubumbashi, expressed similar doubts: The Chinese are not even making use of Congolese talent.
The Next Empire 2010
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Evidence of Chinese industry is not hard to find in Lubumbashi.
The Next Empire 2010
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This question, which one hears almost everywhere, was addressed most powerfully by the Congolese lawyer I met in Lubumbashi.
The Next Empire 2010
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Evidence of Chinese industry is not hard to find in Lubumbashi.
The Next Empire 2010
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