Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An ancient Phoenician city on the eastern Mediterranean Sea in present-day southern Lebanon. The capital of Phoenicia after the 11th century BC, it was a flourishing commercial center noted for its purple dyestuffs and rich, silken clothing. Tyre was besieged and captured by Alexander the Great in 332 BC and was destroyed by a Mameluke army in AD 1291.
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- proper noun An ancient sea
port andcity state of Phoenecia, in present-dayLebanon .
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Examples
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The problem with The Trouble with Boys: A Surprising Report Card on Our Sons, Their Problems at School, and What Parents and Educators Must Do by Peg Tyre is that it is a good book wrapped up in so many stereotypes it is difficult to find the true nuggets of knowledge.
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The problem with The Trouble with Boys: A Surprising Report Card on Our Sons, Their Problems at School, and What Parents and Educators Must Do by Peg Tyre is that it is a good book wrapped up in so many stereotypes it is difficult to find the true nuggets of knowledge.
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And this morning, that boat was rammed three times by an Israeli patrol vessel, leaving it damaged and forcing it to take a detour in Tyre, Lebanon.
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And this morning, that boat was rammed three times by an Israeli patrol vessel, leaving it damaged and forcing it to take a detour in Tyre, Lebanon.
Say What You Will About Cynthia McKinney… « Antiwar.com Blog 2008
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Forth, Tyre is a typical ignorant woman who knows nothing about video games and simply generalizes about the people who play them.
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I saw in Tyre, also, another temple … called after Heracles of Thasos; and so I went to Thasos.
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I saw in Tyre, also, another temple … called after Heracles of Thasos; and so I went to Thasos.
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"Two rescue workers, including the chief of the Lebanese Red Cross in Tyre, Salam Daher (aka" Green Helmet "), were wounded by shrapnel during raids near the hospital where they had been rushing to help extinguish the fire, police said."
Breaking news Richard 2006
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That certainly seems to have applied to our mystery man, "Green Helmet", as the Yahoo site has him in Tyre on the Wednesday (pictured above left), acting as part of a fire crew.
The "Green Helmet" mystery continues Richard 2006
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Among others, the body of a child recovered under the rubble of a demolished building that was struck by Israeli war plane missiles at the village of Qana near the southern Lebanon city of Tyre, is placed in an ambulance Sunday July 30.
Milking it? Richard 2006
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