New Britain

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noun

the largest island in the Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea, in the W central Pacific Ocean. About 14,600 sq. mi. (37,814 sq. km). Capital: Rabaul.

a city in central Connecticut.

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How to use New Britain in a sentence

But the enemy of the new emirs is neither the Jew nor the Christian, it is the godless militant defending secularism.
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With all that said, representation of each of these respective communities has increased in the new Congress.
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Descending the Alps to the east or south into Piedmont, a new world lies around and before you.
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Here began indeed, in the drab surroundings of the workshop, in the silent mystery of the laboratory, the magic of the new age.
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Joe looked at her with a smile, his face still solemn and serious for all its youth and the fires of new-lit hope behind his eyes.
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There seems something in that also which I could spare only very reluctantly from a new Bible in the world.
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We should have to admit that the new law does little or nothing to relieve such a situation.
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British Dictionary definitions for New Britain

New Britain

noun

an island in the S Pacific, northeast of New Guinea: the largest island of the Bismarck Archipelago; part of Papua New Guinea; mountainous, with several active volcanoes. Capital: Rabaul. Pop: 161 737 (2000). Area: 36 519 sq km (14 100 sq miles)

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