mainland
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This appears to refer to new routes, running much closer to the Iranian mainland, north of the two traffic separation lanes in use before the war.
From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026
Doggerland once formed a land bridge connecting Britain to mainland Europe before rising sea levels submerged it, creating the modern North Sea.
From Science Daily • Apr. 17, 2026
The Taiwanese microchip factory is almost visible from mainland China.
From BBC • Apr. 7, 2026
Also this week, Japan deployed long-range missiles capable of reaching China’s mainland as part of a military buildup on its strategic southwestern islands.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 5, 2026
Later, it was the vaccine of the Reverend Hall, fetched from the mainland, that guarded the rest of the Ojibwa who had been exposed and who survived the smallpox of 1847.
From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich
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