pains
Example Sentences
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It was this mix of paisas, cholos, skaters, rockers, older people, younger people, people getting dropped off at the bus stop — everyone’s shopping.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 20, 2023
Geography, and Basque ancestry, have isolated people here, who call themselves paisas, countrymen.
From New York Times • Jun. 2, 2010
I copied the number into my guidebook and dialed from a pay telephone, sorting through the coins with which I was still unfamiliar, smaller and lighter than shillings, heavier and brighter than paisas.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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