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mainland

[mayn-land, -luhnd] / ˈmeɪnˌlænd, -lənd /
NOUN
shore
Synonyms
STRONGEST
STRONG
WEAK


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It is thought the workshop serviced Roman society in Chester, but there is also evidence on the site through pottery fragments recovered that trading was as far away as mainland Europe.

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026

Leap said the spaceport could potentially be used for launching small satellites for customers in the UK and mainland Europe.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

The review of the General Mills’ business follows its decision in June to sell shops it owns under the Haagen-Dazs brand in mainland China to an investor group.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

He got an early taste of activism at 13, protesting against plans for a high-speed rail link to mainland China.

From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026

Mrs. Kincaid worked on the mainland as an accountant, but sometimes did her work from home.

From "Caterpillar Summer" by Gillian McDunn

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

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

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


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