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Recent Examples of cay
At the top, we were rewarded with sweeping views over the turquoise flats and nearby cays.
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Angela Caraway-Carlton, Miami Herald, 14 Oct. 2025
Long Bay Beach, Providenciales, Turks & Caicos No, the island of Provo—the traveler’s gateway to Turks and Caicos’s 40-odd islands and cays—isn’t undiscovered by any stretch of the imagination.
—Kristin Braswell, AFAR Media, 14 Aug. 2025
Offshore, cays drift in dreamy isolation—their edges kissed by foamy surf and dotted with nesting Brown Pelicans.
—Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
It can be reached via water taxi or private catamaran (around 20 minutes) and is one of the cays that make up La Cordillera Nature Reserve.
—Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 27 July 2025
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As per a Reuters report, the Japanese test mining vessel Chikyu departed on Monday from the port city of Shizuoka for waters near Minamitori Island, a remote coral atoll about 1,900 kilometers southeast of Tokyo.—
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The airport is expected to serve as a major boost for the atoll’s 1,000 residents, who currently rely on an infrequent, multi-day transport ship—also provided through Chinese assistance—to reach the nearest runway and access flights to other parts of the state and beyond.—
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The island has long struggled with electricity shortages and economic hardship, conditions many in South Florida's Cuban community say must change.—
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China regards Taiwan as its own territory and maintains its right to take control of the island one day, including by force.—
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It’s been that way for years The other half of Tuesday’s news was cash for Florida’s coral reef.—
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The zoo had other new light attractions this year, including the African Savanna, reptile planet, bug world and coral reef.—
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“Cay.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cay. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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