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Java Sea

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noun

  1. a sea between Java and Borneo.


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And so in 2019, the country’s president announced a bold plan to carve a new capital out of the rainforest 800 miles away across the Java Sea.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2024

Just five months earlier, all 189 on board Lion Air 610 were killed when a five-month-old Boeing 737 MAX 8 plunged into the Java Sea, 13 minutes after takeoff from Jakarta on Oct.

From Salon ● Jan. 26, 2024

The accident followed a Lion Air 737 MAX crash in Indonesia's Java Sea five months earlier which killed all 189 people on board.

From Reuters ● Nov. 14, 2023

In Indonesia, the government is preparing for a possible retreat from Jakarta, which is sinking into the Java Sea, for a new capital being constructed on the higher ground of an entirely different island.

From Seattle Times ● May 29, 2023

Davidson's existence, too, running the Sissie along the Java Sea and back again, was distinctly monotonous and, in a sense, lonely.

From Victory An Island Tale by Joseph Conrad

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