New Hebrides
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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Schab spent most of World War II in the Pacific with the Navy, going to the New Hebrides, now known as Vanuatu, and then the Mariana Islands and Okinawa.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 6, 2023
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
From 1906 until independence in 1980 these islands were jointly administered by Britain and France as the New Hebrides, so colonial relics remain – Winston Churchill Avenue runs into rue du Général de Gaulle.
From The Guardian • Nov. 17, 2015
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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