mainland
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Equity markets were mixed in Asia Wednesday, with indexes in mainland China and Hong Kong both falling, while South Korea’s Kospi edged up 0.4%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
Many young Taiwanese haven’t lived through decades of tensions with the mainland, and some embrace Chinese popular culture.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
Well, rural mainland Scotland deserves the same thinking.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
Hong Kong's government unveiled plans on Wednesday to significantly boost investment on innovation and technology as it aims to align the financial hub with mainland China's development goals.
From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026
The three men stood on the highest point looking over towards the mainland.
From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie
Zoologists provide evidence that fewer animal species live on islands than on nearby mainlands.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
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
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
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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