How to Use Bengali in a Sentence
Bengali
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For Bengali Americans who grew up in the United States, the festival is a link back to their heritage.
—Ian Duncan, Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2023
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During the interviews, a Google exec stated that their AI app was able to engage in Bengali even though it was said to not have been data trained in that language.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
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For two minutes, gesticulating to the crowd and to his heart, Mr. Khan recited Bengali verse.
—Alex Traub, New York Times, 14 June 2023
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The next three Indian languages that commissions are likely to be in are Bengali, Marathi and Kannada.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 31 Jan. 2024
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But finding staff who speak Cantonese or other Asian languages like Bengali is even more difficult.
—Rong Xiaoqing, Curbed, 21 Aug. 2023
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David Bengali's crisp, blue-sky projections clash with the set's earthy tones, while the varied circus animals lack any visual cohesion.
—Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2024
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Contents are made as originals in a range of local languages including Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati and Bhojpuri.
—Patrick Frater, Variety, 13 Apr. 2023
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The film is based on a story by the late, great Bengali filmmaker Satyajit Ray and contrasts the pursuit of material wealth with that of intellectual knowledge.
—Patrick Frater, Variety, 26 May 2023
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In contrast, the Bengali filmmaker appeared uncomfortable on the podium.
—Hazlitt, 12 July 2023
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Saffron rice and garlic naan accompany each of the five main course options, like seasonal squash kofta; paneer mille-feuille; Bengali lamb curry; old Delhi butter chicken; and Goan sea bass.
—Georgann Yara, The Arizona Republic, 16 May 2023
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After a Bengali interpreter who works with asylum seekers in Paris is charged with assaulting a refugee, her resulting self-examination lays bare the callousness of France’s asylum system.
—New York Times, 19 July 2023
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Though Sen was a prodigious mathematician in boyhood, an early love of the Bengali waterways led him to an interest in their economic importance, and to Adam Smith’s analyses of the role rivers and canals played in developing the market economy.
—Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Jan. 2022
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Authorities finally published their findings for Assam this year, and not surprisingly, the majority of those identified as illegally settled in Assam were Bengali Hindus.
—Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Foreign Affairs, 20 Dec. 2019
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