atoll
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“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
Under a contentious deal inked with Australia this year, the island nation will provide 30-year visas for up to 350 immigrants -- many convicted of serious crimes -- for resettlement on the barren atoll.
From Barron's • Nov. 25, 2025
The operation concerned a 50-mile-wide atoll, Rongelap Island, in the Marshall Islands.
From Slate • Jul. 22, 2025
“The Aviator and the Showman” leaves no doubt about Earhart’s disappearance: She misjudged her gasoline reserves, panicked and crashed near tiny Howland atoll.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 11, 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
Vocabulary lists containing atoll
Physical Geography - Middle School
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Physical Geography - High School
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Pacific Islands - Introductory
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