Atlantic Provinces

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plural noun

the Canadian provinces bordering the Atlantic Ocean, comprising New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island.

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Words nearby Atlantic Provinces

Atlantic City, Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, Atlanticism, Atlanticist, Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic Provinces, Atlantic salmon, Atlantic Standard Time, Atlantic time, Atlantis, atlanto-

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How to use Atlantic Provinces in a sentence

There was Air France Flight 447, which fell into the south Atlantic in 2009.
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The Atlantic has reported extensively on the at least $600 million Amazon stands to be paid for handling CIA data.
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“The youngest old man any of us knows,” an unnamed friend of Atlantic Publisher David Bradley said of Hughes.
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Much like the Taj Mahal, Revel opened in classically gaudy Atlantic City style in April 2012—with a sunrise Champagne toast.
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Notoriously, Atlantic City did not get its first supermarket until 1996.
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The parliament house and library of the British provinces, at Montreal, burned by a mob.
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There is still a general tendency in universities on both sides of the Atlantic to treat propaganda as infection.
The Salvaging Of Civilisation|H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
He had the sun-scorched look of a traveller who has just crossed the Atlantic, and he smiled at Bernard with his honest eyes.
Confidence|Henry James
It was republished at once in America, and was welcomed as warmly on this side of the Atlantic as on the other.
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The Marshal found himself in the congenial position of absolute ruler of the richest provinces of Spain.
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British Dictionary definitions for Atlantic Provinces

Atlantic Provinces

pl n

the Atlantic Provinces certain of the Canadian provinces with coasts facing the Gulf of St Lawrence or the Atlantic: New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland and Labrador

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