Example Sentences

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This represents tabula plena, or the "full slate."

From Science Daily • May 3, 2026

The album, released just over a year ago, embraces rhythms native to Puerto Rico, like plena and salsa, and centers the island’s colonial history.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 4, 2026

The Puerto Rican star's musically ambitious Debí Tirar Más Fotos, fuses live instrumentation with the hip-swaying pulse of reggaeton, plena, salsa and a multitude of other Latin styles.

From BBC • Jan. 31, 2026

But, Melendez-Badillo says, he's also a colonial subject -- a reality explored on "Debi Tirar Mas Fotos," which features an ingenious melange of traditional sounds including salsa, bomba and plena, with infusions of reggaeton.

From Barron's • Jan. 31, 2026

Popular items were the boxes on the floor filled with Spanish LPs from past decades, old mambo and salsa records, plena, bomba, Latin hits our parents would dance to.

From "Bodega Dreams" by Ernesto Quinonez