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atoll

[at-awl, -ol, -ohl, uh-tawl, uh-tol, uh-tohl] / ˈæt ɔl, -ɒl, -oʊl, əˈtɔl, əˈtɒl, əˈtoʊl /
NOUN
island
Synonyms
STRONGEST


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Ric Gillespie, who specialises in recovering historic aircraft wrecks, told news agency Reuters that the object looked like a tree that had fallen from the atoll into the nearby water.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

The rescue spacecraft developed by the US startup Katalyst is slated to lift off Tuesday at 1023 GMT from a Pacific Ocean atoll aboard a small rocket named Pegasus.

From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026

“I want my money, and I want to go home,” says Markuse Michel, 64, who remembers swimming in azure waters and kicking a soccer ball around with his friends on Peros Banhos atoll.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026

The operation concerned a 50-mile-wide atoll, Rongelap Island, in the Marshall Islands.

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2025

On the second day his company was assembled on the top deck and told that they were moving toward Tarawa atoll, where they would go ashore at Betio, a strongly defended island.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson




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