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island

[ahy-luhnd] / ˈaɪ lənd /


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The school, on an island in the Sea of Marmara near Istanbul, is now being renovated.

From The Wall Street Journal

The island’s other, undamaged, reactor restarted in 1985 but ultimately succumbed to market forces.

From The Wall Street Journal

"Now that it's on the island of Ireland, they are very concerned, and I imagine they will be organising the availability of vaccines for their farmers," he said.

From BBC

Its monumental earthworks, forest islands, and living cultural traditions suggest that part of our shared future may depend on listening more closely to these landscapes that remember.

From Science Daily

Separate weather systems brought torrential, extended rainfall to the entire island of Sri Lanka and large parts of Indonesia's Sumatra, southern Thailand and northern Malaysia last week.

From Barron's