How to Use Comanche in a Sentence
Comanche
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Comanche 3 was the last scheduled to be shut down.
—Judith Kohler, Denver Post, 28 Mar. 2026
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Her car was found the next morning at Comanche Park, Salazar said.
—Kc Baker, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025
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Xcel has said Comanche 3 could be out of service until June.
—Judith Kohler, Denver Post, 4 Dec. 2025
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That’s more money and more jobs than Comanche 3 is providing now.
—Jamie Valdez, Denver Post, 24 Nov. 2025
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One unit of the Comanche coal plant was closed in 2020 and a second is scheduled to shut down this year.
—Judith Kohler, Denver Post, 11 Sep. 2025
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Dianna Wright lives about two miles from Comanche Circle.
—Elizabeth Campbell, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Feb. 2026
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The 750-megawatt Comanche 3 coal plant near Pueblo hasn’t worked since last August.
—Judith Kohler, Denver Post, 28 Mar. 2026
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In a normal summer, Blank said operations might be fine even if Comanche 3 remained idle longer.
—Judith Kohler, Denver Post, 28 Mar. 2026
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The Comanche Circle project isn’t far from Dinosaur Valley State Park.
—Elizabeth Campbell, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Feb. 2026
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Prey, at its heart, is a coming of age story and a period film, unfolding in 1700s Comanche culture.
—Andy Crump, Time, 7 Nov. 2025
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Comanche, Hamilton and Mills counties in Central Texas are included.
—Michael Autovino, CBS News, 10 Mar. 2026
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However, Xcel’s progress in phasing out coal hit a road bump in 2025 when the largest unit at Comanche malfunctioned and had to be shut down.
—Judith Kohler, Denver Post, 14 Jan. 2026
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In southeastern Oklahoma, the Comanche Nation is accepting deer meat for food banks.
—Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 13 Nov. 2025
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This means the company could run Comanche 2 past its retirement date in addition to Comanche 3 once it’s repaired.
—Jamie Valdez, Denver Post, 24 Nov. 2025
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Other monikers from indigenous tribes for this month’s full moon include the sleet moon from the Comanche people, the Creek tribe’s wind moon and the crow moon as named by the Shawnee.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 31 Jan. 2026
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The film follows Naru (Amber Midthunder), a Comanche warrior with the heart of a hunter, who seeks to prove her skills and protect her tribe by catching a predator.
—Ilana Gordon, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Dec. 2025
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The film follows Naru (Amber Midthunder), a Comanche warrior with the heart of a hunter, who seeks to prove her skills and protect her tribe by catching a predator.
—Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 26 Dec. 2025
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Adding to the diverse mix were hired hands from tribes such as the Comanche, Cheyenne and Apache, who became unrivaled horse whisperers long before settlers arrived on their lands.
—Foreign Correspondent, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2026
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The utility’s largest power generator, the Comanche 3 coal plant near Pueblo, hasn’t worked since August and could be down for several more months.
—Judith Kohler, Denver Post, 3 Apr. 2026
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The company said growing demand for power, supply chain and other issues holding up new power sources and plant outages contributed to the need to keep Comanche 2 open longer than planned.
—Judith Kohler, Denver Post, 10 Mar. 2026
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But Flint encouraged people to attend the commissioners’ court meeting and speak against the Comanche Circle proposal.
—Elizabeth Campbell, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Jan. 2026
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Comanche 3 has been a reliability disaster and its pollution contributes to disease and cancer.
—Jamie Valdez, Denver Post, 24 Nov. 2025
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If approved, Xcel Energy can run Comanche 2 for an additional year without clear guidelines to restrict pollution.
—Jamie Valdez, Denver Post, 24 Nov. 2025
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Critics of the chronically malfunctioning Comanche 3 called for closing it rather than spending money to fix a plant that’s expected to close at the end of 2030.
—Judith Kohler, Denver Post, 10 Mar. 2026
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Xcel’s report said repairing Comanche 3 is the most viable means to continue meeting customers’ needs, but also included possible options to ensure there’s enough juice to power the grid in the near term.
—Judith Kohler, Denver Post, 10 Mar. 2026
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First-time visitors to the Comanche National Grassland are often surprised to find such a varied landscape, the tourism agency says, from rolling short-grass prairies to rugged canyons rimmed by pinion-juniper forests.
—Gary Stoller, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
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The county commissioners will hold a public hearing on the plan for Comanche Circle, and separately consider putting a temporary pause on these types of big developments.
—Elizabeth Campbell, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Jan. 2026
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Xcel Energy sought to keep the unit running after coal unit Comanche 3, the utility’s largest power generating source, malfunctioned in August.
—Judith Kohler, Denver Post, 4 Dec. 2025
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The Colorado Public Utilities Commission agreed Wednesday to extend the life of Comanche 2, which was scheduled to close at the end of this year.
—Judith Kohler, Denver Post, 4 Dec. 2025
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Xcel, Colorado’s largest electric utility, has proposed replacing the Comanche coal plant with wind and solar power, battery storage and natural gas generation.
—Judith Kohler, Denver Post, 4 Dec. 2025
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