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mainland

noun as in shore

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The barber runs two salons, one on Bute and one on the mainland in Greenock.

From BBC

Investment has been pouring into Chinese stocks - particularly those of tech companies - listed in Hong Kong and mainland China.

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The pair had apparently gone missing a few hours earlier from a 34-foot sailboat in the channel between Catalina Island and the mainland, according to a news release from the Coast Guard.

Suddenly, most of the freedoms that had set Hong Kong apart from mainland China - freedom of expression, the right to political assemblies – were gone.

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Sicily's Cosa Nostra has even started working with other gangs, including the notorious and far larger 'Ndrangheta in mainland Italy.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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