New Hebrides
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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He once dived into the nearly 5-mile-deep New Hebrides trench near Tonga in a Nautile submarine.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 24, 2023
Records show Ratard spent 48 years working in and teaching public health, starting in his native Vanuato - a South Pacific archipelago then called New Hebrides, in 1972.
From Washington Times • Apr. 14, 2020
But the colonies were of limited value; for a while, the only pledge of support de Gaulle got was from New Hebrides, in the South Pacific, not hugely useful for a European war.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 13, 2018
He returned to the South Pacific several years later and decided to go to Erromango, Vanuatu, then known as the New Hebrides.
From BBC • Apr. 12, 2018
Another example of a correlation mistaken for a cause: In the New Hebrides Islands, body lice were considered a cause of good health.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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