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Asia

[ay-zhuh, ay-shuh] / ˈeɪ ʒə, ˈeɪ ʃə /
NOUN
a continent in the east
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It is so gruelling that its Asia tournament in Hong Kong was billed as "physical hell", with player Leo Lines admitting that "anyone that's got the puck" is going through "some level of suffering".

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

Global conflicts have disrupted civil aviation, leaving fewer safe flight routes between Europe and Asia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

Hundreds of flights in the East Asia region were cancelled on Friday as powerful Typhoon Champi roared close to Taiwan's north-east coast.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

The general losses in New York filtered through to Asia in the morning but some markets staged a comeback as the day progressed.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

The Americas were a great laboratory of evolutionary experimentation, a place where animals and plants unknown in Africa and Asia had evolved and thrived.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari


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