isle
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Based in the British-owned isle of Jersey, CoinShares previously traded on Nasdaq Stockholm in Sweden.
From Barron's ● Apr. 2, 2026
The 24-hour guard-gated island is home to fewer than 50 single-family homes—which occupy about three quarters of the isle, while the rest is home to a few condo buildings and hotels.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 16, 2026
Like Santorini, Milos is a volcanic isle that is home to one of Greece's most unique beaches, Sarakiniko.
From Barron's ● Feb. 12, 2026
In the new film, the duo head to the isle of Capri, where Lively’s character is about to marry a wealthy Italian businessman.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2025
The entire western half of the isle at the center of Paris was trapped inside those walls.
From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz
Their political outlook, formed in part by their experience with English oppression on the British isles, was much more suspicious of government authority.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
Searching out the echoes of the Celtic foundation, Mr. Robb expresses the current mood of the isles and Western Europe more broadly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
At the very least, it has gorgeous shots of the sun-soaked Greek isles.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 31, 2025
The two Central African countries have been arguing over the isles - Conga, Mbanié and Cocoteros - since the early 1970s.
From BBC ● May 19, 2025
I fly straight through the floating isles like a ghost, angling up to go as high as I can until I can’t get any farther from land.
From "Warcross" by Marie Lu
Nay, rather, isled amid the stream— Watching the flood—and, half in dream Guessing the sources whence it rose, And musing to what Deep it flows.
From The Poems of William Watson by Watson, William
Here Rose and Magnolia Our dearest enshrine, The prayer of the south wind Is thine and is mine, For Child and for Mother Here sweetly twice isled, Brave Seamen are praying For Mother and Child.
From Memories of Canada and Scotland — Speeches and Verses by Campbell, John Douglas Sutherland
Tho’ all men else their nobler dreams forget, Confused by brainless mobs and lawless Powers; Thank Him who isled us here, and roughly set His Briton in blown seas and storming showers...
From Tennyson and His Friends by Various
The aspect of the windows is nearly south, and the prospect includes the plain of the Marchfeld, with the isled Danube and Lobau in the extreme distance.
From The Dynasts by Hardy, Thomas
What days could ever be so long As those our pristine Summers poised O'er a charmed valley isled among Their bright slow-breaking tides unnoised?
From King Lear's Wife; The Crier by Night; The Riding to Lithend; Midsummer-Eve; Laodice and Dana? by Bottomley, Gordon
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