New South Wales

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noun

a state in SE Australia. 309,433 sq. mi. (801,430 sq. km). Capital: Sydney.

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news media, newsmonger, New Smyrna Beach, new sol, New South, New South Wales, New Spain, newspaper, newspaperman, newspaperwoman, newspeak

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How to use New South Wales in a sentence

Pointedly omitting leadership in New York, he adds that he also had “excellent relationships” with two successive mayors in Toronto, the premier of Ontario and the minister of transport in New South Wales.
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They often have very small ranges and a number of them, such as Acanthokara kaputensis from Mount Kaputar, in New South Wales had their entire ranges incinerated.
A year after Australia’s wildfires, extinction threatens hundreds of species|John Pickrell|March 9, 2021|Science News
When Isabel Hyman heads out in coming weeks to the wilds of northern New South Wales, she’s worried about what she won’t find.
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In October, Hyman’s team published one of the first papers quantifying the impacts on invertebrates in New South Wales in the Technical Reports of the Australian Museum Online.
A year after Australia’s wildfires, extinction threatens hundreds of species|John Pickrell|March 9, 2021|Science News

That’s what’s happening right now in Australia’s New South Wales.
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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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The influential al Qaeda propagandist, who was born in New Mexico, died in a U.S. drone strike later that year.
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Back in New York, the slow pace and inward focus of her yoga practice was less fulfilling.
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Allegations of transphobia are not new in the world of gay online dating.
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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 South Wales

New South Wales

noun

a state of SE Australia: originally contained over half the continent, but was reduced by the formation of other states (1825–1911); consists of a narrow coastal plain, separated from extensive inland plains by the Great Dividing Range; the most populous state; mineral resources. Capital: Sydney. Pop: 6 716 277 (2003 est). Area: 801 428 sq km (309 433 sq miles)

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