How to Use the Near East in a Sentence
the Near East
noun
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Instead, after the glacial maximum, people in Italy show genetic links to the Near East, suggesting a new population arrived from the Balkans.
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Byandrew Curry,
science.org,
1 Mar. 2023
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But apocalyptic traditions such as those of the Near East, from Zoroastrianism to Islam, are not universal.
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Michael Robbins,
Harper's Magazine,
9 Nov. 2022
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College students, particularly at elite colleges and universities, are not only rejecting the mere right of Jews to continue to live in their historic homeland in the Near East.
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Miles Smith Iv,
National Review,
5 Nov. 2023
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The success of this discovery, as reported in a press release, can be attributed to chicken bones that were excavated from 140 archaeological sites across Europe and the Near East.
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Jack Knudson,
Discover Magazine,
20 Dec. 2023
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As humans have spread cats around the world over the past 9,000 years, these ferocious felines—which were likely domesticated thousands of years ago in the Near East—have terrorized native creatures on every continent except Antarctica.
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Jack Tamisiea,
Scientific American,
12 Dec. 2023
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