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Though the first African slaves in Virginia arrived in 1619, comparatively few black captives came to the English colonies of the North American mainland during the period covered in “Contested Continent.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

When he returned to mainland China, he was questioned by state security police.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

Hong Kong is "less relevant for China's national tech ambitions" than mainland powerhouses like Shenzhen, said Gary Ng, a senior economist at Natixis.

From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026

The island—roughly 125 miles east of the Spanish mainland, with a population of about one million—is on track to welcome about 14 million tourists this year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026

At first they refused, not because of the time and effort it would take to get Caroline to the mainland every Saturday, but because there was no money.

From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson

Zoologists provide evidence that fewer animal species live on islands than on nearby mainlands.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022

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

Almost all fishing is now carried out at the surface or on the bottoms of the continental shelves that jut from the world's 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