How to Use Latvian in a Sentence
Latvian
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That comment was in his native Latvian, the language in which Staprans wrote his plays.
—Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Feb. 2026
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But the 29-year-old Latvian also knows there’s no benefit to wallowing over it.
—Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 24 Nov. 2025
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The Latvian, growing suspicious, insisted on a video call.
—Robert Faturechi, ProPublica, 11 Apr. 2026
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The Latvian, who lost to Townsend in three sets, insulted her rival with jibes about class and education.
—Tim Ellis, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
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The Latvian ultimately blocked Fake Me.
—Robert Faturechi, ProPublica, 11 Apr. 2026
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The mercurial Latvian, who has beaten her in all six of their meetings, was a possible fourth-round opponent in 2025.
—Ava Wallace, New York Times, 21 May 2026
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The 18-year-old Latvian, on loan from his Finnish club, Jukurit, arrived in Munich in February.
—Peter Baugh, New York Times, 17 June 2026
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The Latvian turned heads at the World Juniors and held his own offensively with the USHL’s Muskegon Lumberjacks.
—Allan Mitchell, New York Times, 28 June 2026
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Townsend, who is 139th in the WTA's singles rankings, told reporters the game was going 26th ranked Ostapenko's way at first but the Latvian's mood changed when Townsend started to get the upper hand.
—Robert Birsel shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
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Locmelis, Boston’s fourth-round pick in the 2022 draft, joined Mougenel’s team after his sophomore season at UMass and the young Latvian simply ripped it up, notching 3-9-12 totals in just six regular season games.
—Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 10 Sep. 2025
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All four Panthers goals came by Olympians — Finns Eetu Luostarinen and Anton Lundell, Latvian Uvis Balinskis and American Matthew Tkachuk.
—Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 5 Feb. 2026
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Unfortunately, as the Latvian Men's National Basketball Team prepared for their first FIBA World Cup appearance, plantar fasciitis forced him to sit out.
—Bobby Krivitsky, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
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The Latvian Mountaineering Association identified the three climbers who died as Inese Puceka, Vija Olte and Renars Kunigs-Salaks, according to Reuters.
—Anthony Thompson, USA Today, 30 May 2026
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The Latvian Mountaineering Association identified the deceased climbers as Inese Puceka, Vija Olte and Renars Kunigs-Salaks, the outlet reported.
—Kelly McGreal, FOXNews.com, 1 June 2026
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But beyond its historic core, Riga is also a major cultural hub, anchored by institutions, venues, and museums such as the Kaņepes Kultūras Centrs, the Latvian National Opera, and the Riga Art Nouveau Centre.
—Lauren Dana Ellman, Travel + Leisure, 21 May 2026
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The Latvian Mountaineering Association identified them as Inese Pučeka, Vija Olte, and Renārs Kunigs-Salaks, according to a Google Translate from Latvian of the group’s announcement.
—Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 6 June 2026
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Search and rescue teams in Alaska rescued one climber and have shifted to recovery operations after three members of a Latvian mountaineering expedition died in a fall on Mount McKinley, according to the National Park Service and the Latvian Mountaineering Association.
—Anthony Thompson, USA Today, 30 May 2026
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The Baltic festival was launched in 2009 by Solvita Krese, Director at the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art (LCCA) as a response to budget cuts in culture, thanks to the economic crisis affecting Latvia at the time.
—Joanne Shurvell, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
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The walk began at the Lithuanian Pavilion in the Fucina del Futuro, progressed to the Latvian Pavilion in the Arsenale, and ended at the Estonian pavilion at Patronato Salesiano Leone XIII, a church–turned–community center.
—Leigh Anne Miller, ARTnews.com, 7 May 2026
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While the Belarusian Ministry of Defense claimed that only 13,000 Belarusian and Russian personnel will participate in Zapad-2025, independent assessments by the Latvian Ministry of Defense state that between 100,000 and 150,000 Belarusian and Russian soldiers will be involved in the drills.
—Mark Temnycky, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
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