as in continent
a large area of land that is a part of a continent
—used especially to refer to the area that includes India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh
the Indian subcontinent
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Recent Examples of subcontinent
Silicon Valley is home to scores of restaurants with roots on the Indian subcontinent.
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Linda Zavoral, Mercury News, 16 Mar. 2026
Parsis, who practice Zoroastrianism, migrated from Persia to the Indian subcontinent between the 8th and 10th centuries.
—The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Mar. 2026
Cash in hand, the sugarcane planters of Mauritius replaced their slaves with contract labor from the Indian subcontinent.
—David Frum, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2026
Her father, Amrit, a high-ranking civil servant, was born in Punjab before the partition that divided the subcontinent.
—Rebecca Traister, Vulture, 10 Feb. 2026
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Linda Zavoral, Mercury News, 16 Mar. 2026
Parsis, who practice Zoroastrianism, migrated from Persia to the Indian subcontinent between the 8th and 10th centuries.
—The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Mar. 2026
Cash in hand, the sugarcane planters of Mauritius replaced their slaves with contract labor from the Indian subcontinent.
—David Frum, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2026
Her father, Amrit, a high-ranking civil servant, was born in Punjab before the partition that divided the subcontinent.
—Rebecca Traister, Vulture, 10 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for subcontinent
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Tea Partiers dressed like the Indians of one continent to show that they would not be treated like the Indians of another.—
Daniel Immerwahr,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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China has looked to expand its influence across Africa and on Friday scored a soft-power win by eliminating tariffs for the whole continent — except Eswatini.—
J.D. Capelouto,
semafor.com,
3 May 2026
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The new case in Switzerland, where the patient fell ill after his return to the mainland, raises the specter of human-to-human transmission, The Wall Street Journal reported.—
Janet Loehrke,
USA Today,
7 May 2026
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Consider hiking the Helliwell Bluffs loop, a three-mile jaunt through old-growth Douglas fir and Garry oak trees with sweeping views of the Georgia Strait and the mainland’s epic Coast Mountains.—
Sara Harowitz,
Travel + Leisure,
6 May 2026
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The lithium-rich pegmatites in the Appalachian belt formed more than 250 million years ago during the creation of the supercontinent Pangea.—
Aman Tripathi,
Interesting Engineering,
30 Apr. 2026
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One of the most famous cases of continental rifting is the idea of Pangea, the supercontinent that broke up and formed the Atlantic Ocean hundreds of millions of years ago.—
Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
29 Apr. 2026
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“Subcontinent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subcontinent. Accessed 11 May. 2026.
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