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bridges

noun

Definition of bridges

plural of bridge

as in lands

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Recent Examples of bridges Girard-Perregaux Minute Repeater Flying bridges Girard-Perregaux’s new caliber GP9530 is an automatic minute repeater and tourbillon, interpreted here with the third bridge of GP’s iconic movement positioned on the caseback. — Carol Besler, Forbes.com, 23 May 2026 Milwaukee's older bridges, though, are in better shape than the average Wisconsin bridge built the same decade, the report says. — Anna Kleiber, jsonline.com, 25 Sep. 2025

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Noun

As some national lands face uncertainty, five Post Opinions writers share appreciations of their favorites.

— Washington Post Opinions, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2026
Over the course of Gulliver’s four voyages to fantastical lands, Swift gives the reader wild and varied depictions of political corruption and human hubris.

— Dónal Gill, The Dial, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of lands

Noun

Kevin Fujii / Honolulu Civil Beat via AP Other islands were also battered, including Oahu, where maximum wind gusts topped 50 mph.

— Liz Kreutz, NBC news, 9 Sep. 2026
About 12,800 schools across Sumatra and Borneo islands remained closed as dangerous air quality persisted, according to government data.

— ABC News, ABC News, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of islands

Noun

The vigils, which drew tens of thousands of people a year, were the only large-scale public commemoration on Chinese soil of the Tiananmen crackdown, discussion of which is heavily censored in mainland China.

— Jennifer Jett, NBC news, 11 Sep. 2026
In the panicked days after the deadliest terrorist attack on American soil, New Yorkers agreed that their city had changed forever.

— Hannah Natanson, Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of soil

Noun

Related Stories Some concrete declarations regarding trade were unveiled at the held on the stunning grounds of the Fondation Maeght art foundation and museum complex.

— Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 11 Sep. 2026
For 45 years, Fiesta Hispana has given generations of Kansas City residents a place to gather around Latino culture, filling its festival grounds with music, dancing, food and traditions representing communities from across Latin America.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of grounds

Noun

Questions remain about how many people developed health problems linked to the dust.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 12 Sep. 2026
At the Great Omari Mosque, volunteers use paintbrushes to lift dust and gunpowder from the few thousand books that survived from a collection of twenty thousand.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of dust

Noun

For Michigan, the forecast is essentially divided up between the two peninsulas, but the throughline appears to be milder temperatures and below-average snowfall.

— Sarah Moore, Freep.com, 3 Sep. 2026
Permafrost changes underway in 2026 The Seward and Baldwin peninsulas in northwestern Alaska are hot spots for lakes suddenly draining.

— Anna Liljedahl, The Conversation, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of peninsulas

Noun

Each of its elements began, long ago, in the loamy earth, hatching and creeping or slipping, slick and squealing, from the womb of the mind.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Sep. 2026
Gadolinite was later found to contain several previously unknown elements belonging to the rare-earth group.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 9 Sep. 2026

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