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- noun Plural form of
Slovene .
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Examples
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An ethnic Serb born in Bosnia, he called Slovenes "backstabbers," and threatened to unleash his Army to "establish control and carry things to the end."
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Following the breakup of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the conclusion of World War I, Europe's new nations, including Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, continued to share a currency.
How to Play Europe Now Ben Levisohn 2011
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Mr. Karadzic was there to warn the Parliament members against following the Slovenes and Croats, who had broken away earlier that year, down “the highway of hell and suffering.”
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A national consciousness “awakened” (i.e. was constructed and accepted by a large enough part of the population for it to have meaning and salience) across the Austro-Hungarian Empire for several “nations” (Czechs, Slovaks, Slovenes, Hungarians, German Austrians) BEFORE the successor states of said empire were formed.
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Moreover, those sucessor states were notoriously messy in their nationality, with millions of Ukrainians being in Poland, Hungarians and Germans in Czechoslovakia, Slovenes in Austria, etc. etc.
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Slovenes have closely watched the drama as it has unfolded over the past year.
Klara Kaker: The Missing Girl Case That's Gripped Slovenia 2011
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Torreano is nestled next to the border with Slovenia, and with a little help from Google Translate, I was able to learn from an Italian language website that Boreanaz hints of a long ago immigration of Slovenes from the vicinity of Borjana, where according to this website, "you can still meet deers, lynxes or wild pigs while wandering around."
Megan Smolenyak: What Kind of Name Is Boreanaz? Megan Smolenyak 2011
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I think the Slovenes screwed up big time in the mind wars in the lead up to this game.
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Slovenes were and are a strong, hearty people, and at the same time, generous, maybe to a fault.
David Henry Sterry: An American in South Africa -- Or, Why Soccer Really Matters 2010
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That statistic was offered with some regularity also by Slovenes we ran into.
Fortune 's Stanley Bing: What I Did on My Summer Vacation 2010
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