mainland
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The last visit by a French president to the strategically located islands, some 4,300 kilometres from mainland France, was by Francois Hollande in 2014.
From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026
Hong Kong is "less relevant for China's national tech ambitions" than mainland powerhouses like Shenzhen, said Gary Ng, a senior economist at Natixis.
From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026
Its addition to the Stock Connect program, which allows mainland Chinese investors to trade in Hong Kong stocks, could lead to higher southbound investment flow, though this might take time to come through, she says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
Nice follows earlier work in Deshaies, Guadeloupe, which received recognition in 2023, and Cannes, which became the first municipality in mainland France to receive it in January 2024.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026
I thought it far more likely that they would have sent me off to the mainland, to some place without so much sea and sky.
From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk
The marsupials of Australia, the finches on the Galápagos, and many species on the Hawaiian Islands are all unique to their one point of origin, yet they display distant relationships to ancestral species on mainlands.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
The Berlin-based ethnographer Alexa Clay, who studied change agents in her book, “The Misfit Economy,” talks about mainlands, islands and peninsulas.
From New York Times ● Feb. 29, 2016
The marsupials of Australia, the finches on the Galápagos, and many species on the Hawaiian Islands are all found nowhere else but on their island, yet display distant relationships to ancestral species on mainlands.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 25, 2013
The British had decided to get the pro-Axis revolt there in hand while the invasion of Crete gave them a breather on Middle Eastern mainlands.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the usual experience of archaeologists, inventions are supposed to flow from mainlands to islands, and small peripheral societies aren’t supposed to contribute revolutionary advances to the rest of the world.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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