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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

The Chinese company on Wednesday separately said it is enhancing its partnership with pharma major GSK by obtaining commercialization rights for two GSK respiratory drugs—Trelegy Ellipta and Anoro Ellipta—in mainland China.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026

The wolves were also smaller than typical wolves living on the mainland.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026

The Catalan conquistador led the first mainland expedition of Europeans up and down what’s now California.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 4, 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

The marsupials of Australia, the finches on the Galápagos, and many species on the Hawaiian Islands are all unique to their one point of origin, yet they display distant relationships to ancestral species on 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

To reach that stage, there must be mutual confidence, on the island and the mainlands.

From Time Magazine Archive

In the usual experience of archaeologists, inventions are supposed to flow from mainlands to islands, and small peripheral societies aren’t supposed to contribute revolutionary advances to the rest of the world.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond