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Long Bay Beach, Providenciales, Turks & Caicos No, the island of Provo—the traveler’s gateway to Turks and Caicos’s 40-odd islands and cays—isn’t undiscovered by any stretch of the imagination.
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Kristin Braswell, AFAR Media, 14 Aug. 2025
Offshore, cays drift in dreamy isolation—their edges kissed by foamy surf and dotted with nesting Brown Pelicans.
—Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
It can be reached via water taxi or private catamaran (around 20 minutes) and is one of the cays that make up La Cordillera Nature Reserve.
—Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 27 July 2025
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Kristin Braswell, AFAR Media, 14 Aug. 2025
Offshore, cays drift in dreamy isolation—their edges kissed by foamy surf and dotted with nesting Brown Pelicans.
—Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
It can be reached via water taxi or private catamaran (around 20 minutes) and is one of the cays that make up La Cordillera Nature Reserve.
—Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 27 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cay
Noun
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On a tiny atoll in the Indian Ocean, there lives a flightless bird called the Aldabra rail.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
29 Oct. 2025
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The atoll was briefly occupied between 1938 and 1963 when the British colonial administration encouraged people to settle there from the nearby southern Gilbert Islands.—
Katie Hunt,
CNN Money,
28 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Earlier this summer, the president even proposed a cash reward for residents on any island that completely eliminates smoking.—
Jessie Yeung,
CNN Money,
3 Nov. 2025
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Wet and dry fronts, prevailing winds, moisture and vapour, meeting, as luck would have it, exactly at the top of that big mountain on the little island.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
Noun
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In Gillespie and Pettigrew’s telling, after failing to find Howland Island, Earhart headed south and landed the Electra on Nikumaroro’s large coral reef, which is exposed at low tide.—
Katie Hunt,
CNN Money,
28 Oct. 2025
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The Gulf is home to the northernmost coral reef and over 500 species of tropical fish.—
Essence,
Essence,
28 Oct. 2025
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