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bridges

noun

Definition of bridges

plural of bridge

as in lands

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Recent Examples of bridges Girard-Perregaux Minute Repeater Flying bridges Girard-Perregaux’s new caliber GP9530 is an automatic minute repeater and tourbillon, interpreted here with the third bridge of GP’s iconic movement positioned on the caseback. — Carol Besler, Forbes.com, 23 May 2026 Milwaukee's older bridges, though, are in better shape than the average Wisconsin bridge built the same decade, the report says. — Anna Kleiber, jsonline.com, 25 Sep. 2025

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The first is deliberately short and lands beneath Haaland’s centre of mass, essentially the point around which his weight is balanced.

— Amelie Claydon, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2026
The quantization pass that follows commonly lands around four or five bits per weight, though many formats exist, and presets rather than manual tuning decide which tensors keep higher precision.

— Janakiram MSV, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of lands

Noun

Brown loved her summers on an island off the coast of Maine nearly as much as the Finnish-Swedish Tove Jannson, creator of the Moomin stories, loved her time in the islands off the Swedish coast.

— Anne E. Fernald, Literary Hub, 19 Aug. 2026
The Hibiscus Island home set a new price record for Hibiscus and Palm islands, two affluent manmade islands just off the MacArthur Causeway.

— Catherine Odom, Miami Herald, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of islands

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Works by major international artists (Tschabalala Self, Francesco Clemente, Chantal Joffe) sit alongside Greek artists (Vasilis Papageorgiou, Kostas Paniaras, Sofia Mitsola) and commissions created on site, scattered through the hotel and grounds.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Aug. 2026
The students and their attorneys appeared in federal court on Wednesday for a hearing in their lawsuit challenging FIU's actions on First Amendment grounds.

— Ivan Taylor, CBS News, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of grounds

Noun

The bridge stretches for 5 miles, traversing the Straits of Mackinac to link Michigan’s Upper and Lower peninsulas.

— Hannah Agran, Midwest Living, 12 Aug. 2026
The island is already home to Discovery Land Company’s Barbuda Ocean Club, which encompasses 900 acres across the western and southern peninsulas of Coco Point and Palmetto Point.

— Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 2 July 2026

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