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Asia

[ey-zhuh, ey-shuh] / ˈeɪ ʒə, ˈeɪ ʃə /
NOUN
a continent in the east
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“Rice in southern and southeast Asia is the big one,” said Andrew Watkins, a climate scientist at Monash University in Australia.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 29, 2026

A successful global campaign against Iran may require Washington "to provide incentives" to Beijing to join it, said Lim Tai Wei, a professor and East Asia expert at Japan's Soka University.

From Barron's Aug. 28, 2026

Already, many economists say countries in Asia, above all China, are too dependent on exports and not enough on internal sources of growth such as consumption to power their economies.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 28, 2026

Their findings, published in Science Advances, indicate that eating insects was probably occasional and accidental in Europe, Central and East Asia, while it appears to have been more common in tropical regions and among Neanderthals.

From Science Daily Aug. 27, 2026

The six-fingered man was probably crusading in Asia.

From "The Princess Bride" by William Goldman



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