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island

Definition for island

noun as in land surrounded by body of water

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The school, on an island in the Sea of Marmara near Istanbul, is now being renovated.

The island’s other, undamaged, reactor restarted in 1985 but ultimately succumbed to market forces.

"Now that it's on the island of Ireland, they are very concerned, and I imagine they will be organising the availability of vaccines for their farmers," he said.

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Its monumental earthworks, forest islands, and living cultural traditions suggest that part of our shared future may depend on listening more closely to these landscapes that remember.

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Separate weather systems brought torrential, extended rainfall to the entire island of Sri Lanka and large parts of Indonesia's Sumatra, southern Thailand and northern Malaysia last week.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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