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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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While experts aren’t sure exactly when the tomatoes arrived on the younger islands, the plant’s evolution had to have happened within the last half million years, since that’s around the time the youngest islands first emerged, Jozwiak said.—
Taylor Nicioli,
CNN Money,
30 Oct. 2025
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The country, vulnerable to natural disasters and any significant rainfall, has now had more than a week of rain and is expected to see more when Melissa, which battered Cuba as well on Wednesday, moves into the southern Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos islands.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
29 Oct. 2025
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Sana Biotechnology recently demonstrated the gene-editing approach by transplanting donor islets of beta cells into a patient after genetically modifying the cells to evade the immune system.—
Tara Haelle,
Scientific American,
14 Oct. 2025
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The uninhabited islets became a focal point of tensions between China and Japan after Tokyo nationalized the chain in 2012.—
Micah McCartney,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 Oct. 2025
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“Cays.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cays. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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