statehood
noun
state·hood
ˈstāt-ˌhu̇d 
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Some of this skepticism may be rooted in the crown prince’s reiteration that Saudi Arabia is willing to join the Abraham Accords if there’s a credible path to Palestinian statehood.
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Faisal J. Abbas, semafor.com, 24 Nov. 2025
Hamas has not agreed to disarm, and Israel has not agreed to a pathway for future Palestinian statehood, both of which are nonnegotiable demands that negotiators have been unable to resolve.
—Mike Brest, The Washington Examiner, 24 Nov. 2025
The Israeli premier has frequently branded EU nations recognizing Palestinian statehood amid the conflict as antisemitic in nature and has pointed to left-wing activist sympathies with the Islamist Palestinian Hamas militant group as proof of the unlikely partnership.
—Tom O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2025
The university’s military program launched more than 130 years ago in 1893 — just three years after Idaho statehood, U of I President Scott Green said in an email last month to the students and faculty.
—Kevin Fixler
november 19, Idaho Statesman, 19 Nov. 2025
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Faisal J. Abbas, semafor.com, 24 Nov. 2025
Hamas has not agreed to disarm, and Israel has not agreed to a pathway for future Palestinian statehood, both of which are nonnegotiable demands that negotiators have been unable to resolve.
—Mike Brest, The Washington Examiner, 24 Nov. 2025
The Israeli premier has frequently branded EU nations recognizing Palestinian statehood amid the conflict as antisemitic in nature and has pointed to left-wing activist sympathies with the Islamist Palestinian Hamas militant group as proof of the unlikely partnership.
—Tom O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2025
The university’s military program launched more than 130 years ago in 1893 — just three years after Idaho statehood, U of I President Scott Green said in an email last month to the students and faculty.
—Kevin Fixler
november 19, Idaho Statesman, 19 Nov. 2025
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statehood
noun
state·hood
ˈstāt-ˌhu̇d
: the condition of being a state
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: the condition or status of one of the states of the U.S.
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