mainland
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Last year, exactly zero hurricanes hit the U.S. mainland, which is kind of a bizarre blessing, although we’ve had dead-quiet hurricane seasons before.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2026
But the summer's drought, which affected 95 percent of mainland France in July, has left normally rich pastures dry and bare.
From Barron's ● Aug. 26, 2026
TAIPEI—Taiwan prosecutors charged nine people, including former employees of Nvidia and Super Micro Computer, with aiding the shipment of advanced artificial-intelligence servers to China, as Taiwan tries to limit technology reaching the mainland.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
It is now spreading across Australia, most recently killing more than 1,000 crested terns and a long-nosed fur seal, the first detection in a mainland mammal.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 24, 2026
He was just turning from the window when he saw a distant flash, a pinprick of light among the trees on the mainland shore.
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
Zoologists provide evidence that fewer animal species live on islands than on nearby 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
The British had decided to get the pro-Axis revolt there in hand while the invasion of Crete gave them a breather on Middle Eastern 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
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