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His legal practice worked on rights issues for decades, and he played a key role in the China Human Rights Lawyers Concern Group supporting mainland lawyers facing persecution.

From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026

The ferry had been travelling off the mainland town of Coron, in the Palawan Province, south of Manila.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

A mainland version of Chinese culture, at least in the banquets and buildings I grew up around, often needed official sanction before tradition could be revived and modernity needed to be broadcast to count.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

Certain species are extremely round and resemble the rain frogs found in mainland Africa, spending much of their time concealed beneath the forest floor.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026

Unfortunately, even as it did so, two Executives emerged from behind the boulders on the hill to stare curiously toward the mainland.

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart

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

Almost all fishing is now carried out at the surface or on the bottoms of the continental shelves that jut from the world's mainlands.

From Time Magazine Archive

As an afterthought, he added, “I think,” above the page, as if to signal his last point of departure from the mainlands of biological and theological thought.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee