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He said smoke could be seen from miles around and 10 fire engines from the mainland had travelled over to support the local efforts.

From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026

The 24-book poem is attributed to the poet Homer and is thought to have been composed on mainland Greece between 850 and 750 BC.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026

First Hawaiian would retain Tri Counties Bank branding on the mainland, according to the companies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026

Clackmannanshire is the smallest mainland council in Scotland and this is thought to be the biggest ongoing local emergency it has ever faced.

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026

There was no one on the bridge, the incline concealed him from the rear, and in front of him was nothing but water...and across it the mainland shore.

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart

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

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