as in continents
one of the great divisions of land on the globe or the main part of such a division
the islands of Ireland and Great Britain were once part of the Eurasian landmass
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Recent Examples of landmasses
With a constellation of eyes in the sky, forecasters could suddenly monitor conditions over oceans and remote landmasses, filling in major gaps in their models and providing an early warning system about potential storms forming far away.
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Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2025
Instead, Smyth believes the Lucky pterosaurs and other juvenile Pterodactylus antiquus specimens lived on the landmasses near the lagoons.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 19 Sep. 2025
These climatic shifts allowed the formation of continual landmasses, including one that bridged Anatolia and Europe.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 18 Sep. 2025
Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2025
Instead, Smyth believes the Lucky pterosaurs and other juvenile Pterodactylus antiquus specimens lived on the landmasses near the lagoons.
—Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 19 Sep. 2025
These climatic shifts allowed the formation of continual landmasses, including one that bridged Anatolia and Europe.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 18 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for landmasses
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The State Department and the NFL are working to host 150 events in more than 65 countries across five continents.—
Ryan Canfield,
FOXNews.com,
30 Jan. 2026
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Day in, day out, American planes, drones, and commando teams go out and hunt terrorists across several continents.—
Eliot A. Cohen,
The Atlantic,
29 Jan. 2026
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The two mainlands themselves are only 55 miles apart where Alaska's Seward Peninsula and Russia's Chukotka Peninsula sit on opposite sides of the Bering Sea.—
Trevor Hughes,
USA Today,
15 Aug. 2025
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“Landmasses.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/landmasses. Accessed 7 Feb. 2026.
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