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islands

noun as in land surrounded by body of water

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The order came three days after India confirmed that Mr Modi had got citizenship of Vanuatu, a string of more than 80 islands in the Pacific Ocean.

From BBC

It forms a series of concrete islands leading to various entrances and extends through the restaurant.

Just as McKinley moved to seize an empire of scattered islands instead of whole countries like the Congo or China, so Donald Trump has cast his realtor’s eye on an unlikely portfolio of foreign properties.

From Salon

Just as McKinley moved to seize an empire of scattered islands instead of whole countries like the Congo or China, so Trump has cast his realtor's eye on an unlikely portfolio of foreign properties.

From Salon

As president from 1897 to 1901, McKinley enacted record-high tariffs and used the brief Spanish-American War of 1898 to seize a colonial empire of islands stretching halfway around the world from Puerto Rico to the Philippines.

From Salon

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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