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John Swinney would not be drawn on the scale of job losses likely following his proposals to cut the number of mainland boards from 14 to two.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

It’s the same pattern I found this summer in Taiwan’s temples, thick with incense and unbothered worshippers, versus the mainland faith largely dismantled in the Cultural Revolution and revived only under the party’s careful management.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

Last year, exactly zero hurricanes hit the U.S. mainland, which is kind of a bizarre blessing, although we’ve had dead-quiet hurricane seasons before.

From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026

But the summer's drought, which affected 95 percent of mainland France in July, has left normally rich pastures dry and bare.

From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026

Every night she held a lamp so that the boy she loved could swim from the mainland to meet her.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri

Zoologists provide evidence that fewer animal species live on islands than on nearby 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