Islands
Britishplural noun
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The Solomon Islands hasn’t torn up its pact, for example, allowing a muted Chinese police presence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026
Thousands of would-be migrants have died recently trying to reach Spain's Canary Islands from west Africa.
From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 2026
Mollie, who lives in Padiham, was travelling in the Galapagos Islands after university when she said she started to feel ill.
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026
The U.S. maintains deep, longstanding ties with three Pacific island nations just north of the equator: the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia and Palau.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026
The flights our new Boeing B-29 bomber planes were now making from the Marianas Islands to Japan and back were very long.
From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac
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