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Fire Island

American  

noun

  1. a narrow sand spit off S Long Island, New York: summer resort and lighthouse station. ¼–½ mi. (0.4–0.8 km) wide; 30 miles (48 km) long.


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They’ve also appeared together on TV and the movie Fire Island.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 28, 2026

However, when she arrived on Fire Island, she realized this was not a work retreat, but a double date.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2026

Yang also had a role in the film, and has starred in previous films including The Wedding Banquet, Fire Island, Bros and the first Wicked film.

From BBC ● Dec. 20, 2025

Tina Fey spent the summers of 2002 and 2003 hunched over an old desk in the mildewy back room of a Fire Island rental home.

From New York Times ● Jan. 10, 2024

On that Monday afternoon when the telegraph-operator in Fire Island tower reported the missing Gascogne approaching his station, our tug started out again.

From Harper's Round Table, May 28, 1895 by Various

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