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Example sentences for: merengue

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Merengue is terrific music, too, but when, half a century ago, Trujillo ordered that sound systems be set up to play it all over the Dominican Republic, it wasn't to "uplift" people but to render them passive.
A much older “Latin” dance making a comeback is the merengue, which, when it first became popular, was considered to be so provocative that it was banned by the Spanish authorities.