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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cays
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The radiation effects have been ruinous, according to US government reports cited by the Atomic Heritage Foundation, which said the testing was responsible for 55% of cancers on some of the islands’ northern atolls.—
Brad Lendon,
CNN Money,
4 Nov. 2025 -
The main islands, including Hawaii, Maui, Lanai, Oahu and Kauai, are among a chain of islands, atolls, reefs and volcanoes beneath the sea that stretches 1,700 miles in the Pacific Ocean.—
Dinah Voyles Pulver,
USA Today,
11 Sep. 2025
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John of John, Stuart’s third novel, follows a closeted young art student returning to his childhood home in Scotland’s Hebrides islands, where his unwell grandmother and conservative lay preacher father live uneasily under the same roof.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 Jan. 2026
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Snorkeling and diving are the biggest draws of Carriacou, the larger of the two islands of the Grenadines that belong to the country of Grenada.—
Carley Rojas Avila,
Travel + Leisure,
6 Jan. 2026
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The island is one of the Cayos Cochinos, photogenic coral islets that form part of the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System.—
Qin Xie,
Travel + Leisure,
29 Nov. 2025
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Moving forward, Teyton and his team are slated to do an analysis of all antigen-presenting cells for pre-diabetic pancreatic islets and normal ones and track how the cell populations change over time.—
Noah Lyons,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 Nov. 2025
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“Cays.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cays. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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