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Miquelon

American  
[mik-uh-lon, meekuh-lawn] / ˌmɪk əˈlɒn, mikəˈlɔ̃ /
Miquelon British  
/ miklɔ̃, ˈmiːkəˌlɒn /

noun

  1. a group of islands in the French territory of Saint Pierre and Miquelon

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Miquelon said, however, that inflation is subsiding even as the U.S. potentially heads into “something more typical of a recessionary environment in the short term.”

From Washington Times Dec. 15, 2022

“We’re not a huge company, but that $100 million increase that they passed onto us is, you know, more than our entire profit,” Jo-Ann Stores CEO Wade Miquelon told the president in the video.

From Seattle Times Jun. 9, 2022

The attack came a few days before the introduction of France's health pass in St Pierre and Miquelon, two islands near Canada's Newfoundland in the North Atlantic.

From BBC Jan. 10, 2022

Claireaux is member of Parliament for the constituency of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, a French overseas territory in the northwestern Atlantic Ocean, near the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

From Reuters Jan. 10, 2022

The Bahamas, Belize, and the islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon sold them millions of gallons of liquor.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield

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