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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of southwest Belarus south-southwest of Minsk. First mentioned in 1097, it was the capital of the Pinsk duchy in the 1200s. Pinsk passed to Lithuania in 1320, to Poland in 1569, to Russia in 1793, back to Poland in 1921, and to the USSR in 1945.
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- noun a city of southwestern Belarus
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Examples
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His family in Pinsk had been killed, and he had a relative in the Lower East Side of New York.
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The famous Minsk Pinsk joke, in which one salesman accuses another of lying when he has told him the truth, was told at my dinner table.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Forthcoming TNR Piece on Human Rights Watch 2010
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Biographical Information: Anna Shomer Rothenberg was born in Pinsk, Russia in 1885, one of four children born to Nahum and Dinah Shomer.
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He says that to make me think he's going to Pinsk.
Robert A. Levine: The Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy? -- Update 2010
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The Red Army captured Pinsk, Grodno, and Bialystok, and a Polish collapse appeared imminent.
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Born in Pinsk, Russia, she immigrated to the United States with her family while still an infant and was raised in Brooklyn, New York.
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Born in Pinsk, Russia, she immigrated to the United States with her family while still an infant and was raised in Brooklyn, New York.
Personal Information for Temima Gezari Jewish Women's Archive 2010
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And with the Cold War still going full tilt, every kid with a sense of self in Pinsk, Plauen and Plovdiv hungered to listen to rock music and wanted a copy of Rolling Stone.
Eric Ehrmann: Last Tango in Davos ... Globalism and Social Media Hook Up 2010
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And with the Cold War still going full tilt, every kid with a sense of self in Pinsk, Plauen and Plovdiv hungered to listen to rock music and wanted a copy of Rolling Stone.
Last Tango in Davos ... Globalism and Social Media Hook Up 2010
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Biographical Information: Anna Shomer Rothenberg was born in Pinsk, Russia in 1885, one of four children born to Nahum and Dinah Shomer.
Personal Information for Anna Rothenberg Jewish Women's Archive 2010
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