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peninsula

[puh-nin-suh-luh, -nins-yuh-luh] / pəˈnɪn sə lə, -ˈnɪns yə lə /
NOUN
projecting mass of land
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The peninsula is strategically important for Moscow, as it has been used by its forces to launch drones and missiles at the rest of Ukraine.

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026

“You are all set to go,” a U.S. military officer radioed as the ship glided through the Strait of Hormuz on Monday and swung around the peninsula at the northern end of Oman.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

In another sign of its hardening stance, North Korea deleted all references to uniting the divided peninsula from its constitution, an AFP review of the latest version this week showed.

From Barron's • May 8, 2026

Rebecca Lewis, the Scotland and Northern Ireland manager with conservation charity Buglife, said the peninsula should have an important role to play in reversing biodiversity loss in Scotland.

From BBC • May 3, 2026

Yet counting all species together, there were still no more than perhaps a million humans living between the Indonesian archipelago and the Iberian peninsula, a mere blip on the ecological radar.

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




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