archipelago
Example Sentences
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Fuelled by a tourism boom, real estate fever has broken out across the Cyclades archipelago, threatening to destroy iconic landscapes of whitewashed houses and blue church domes.
From Barron's
"If there was overloading or overcapacity, it's possible cargo shifted ... inside the vessel," Lopez said, adding it was "highly probable" other ships in the archipelago nation were sailing overweight.
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The Spanish archipelago is the jumping off point for their continued journey onward to the European continent.
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The future of the base, situated on a remote archipelago in the British Indian Ocean Territory, has been the subject of debate in recent years.
Since 1 October, the agency has identified 118 cases of shigella and 43 of salmonella linked to trips to the West African archipelago.
From BBC
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