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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
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The Italian retailer — which boasts flagships in Milan, Lugano, Switzerland, and Ibiza, Spain — has opened a temporary space inside the Patina Maldives luxury hospitality venue on Fari Islands, part of the North Malé atoll.—
Martino Carrera,
Footwear News,
20 Oct. 2025
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During the same patrol, coast guard personnel discovered a second buoy at the northern end of Scarborough Shoal, after spotting one placed near the middle of the atoll earlier in the week, the official said.—
Micah McCartney,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Oct. 2025
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Spanish newspaper El Pais reported that, before the COVID-19 pandemic, the island received 156,000 yearly visitors — and $120 million in annual tourist revenue.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
19 Oct. 2025
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At their closest point, the bombers reached 48 miles from Los Roques, a small Venezuelan island archipelago of a few thousand residents.—
Natasha Bertrand,
CNN Money,
19 Oct. 2025
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Adopt a coral reef and be a part of keeping this unique ecosystem alive.—
Taylor McIntyre,
Travel + Leisure,
5 Oct. 2025
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At the nonprofit Great Barrier Reef Foundation, Anna Marsden leads the largest coordinated coral reef protection and restoration effort globally, securing a $287-million grant from the Australian government in 2022 and $456 million in additional private and philanthropic funding.—
Elisabeth Brier,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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“Cay.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cay. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.
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