bailiwicks

plural of bailiwick

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Recent Examples of bailiwicks Mansfield also has her bailiwicks. Literary Hub, 8 June 2026
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Noun
  • Daniela DaSuta, founder of SommSpace in Austin, recommends looking for wines labeled Alto Adige, Collio, Collio Goriziano or Friuli Colli Orientali, all benchmark areas for the variety.
    Devin Parr, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
  • The city presented three scenarios for Hemphill, which would involve either no change to the current traffic flow, adding two lanes of traffic back in certain areas, or adding them back along the entire corridor.
    Emily Holshouser, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 June 2026
Noun
  • Supporters hail the move as bringing accountability and coherence — through the governor — to all the departments and agencies involved in education.
    Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026
  • Cody Hess, an associate government program analyst for the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration, said these differences in departments’ needs for in-person meetings make a sweeping return-to-office order unnecessary.
    Sofia Williams, Sacbee.com, 1 July 2026
Noun
  • Instead of concentrating combat capability aboard a small number of heavily armed warships, the government says the new vessels will support a hybrid fleet in which crewed ships coordinate networks of autonomous systems across multiple domains.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 30 June 2026
  • Across eight domains of preparedness, respondents gave their highest scores to Community.
    Joseph Coughlin, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
Noun
  • What if Baahubali dies and has to go through the 14 realms of the afterlife in Indian mythology?
    Rafael Motamayor, IndieWire, 30 June 2026
  • The new wrinkle is that the big platforms want to draft off what makes top creators successful in their digital-native realms.
    Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 27 June 2026
Noun
  • His companies have redrawn the boundaries of multiple economic fields—the automotive industry, the aerospace sector, satellite communications—and his direct influence has helped transform the world’s most powerful government.
    Mark O’Connell, The New York Review of Books, 4 July 2026
  • The magnetic pull for those whose ultimate prize is privacy and connection to nature is towards gardens, forests, fields and beachfronts that stretch into the distance, delineating possibilities.
    Nielsen Dinwoodie, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026
Noun
  • Even though the monarchy no longer exists in Rwanda, so revered are the cows that the traditional gifting and exchanging them among kingdoms has been embraced by Kagame.
    ABC News, ABC News, 27 June 2026
  • In the fifth century CE, the western half of the Roman Empire disintegrated into a patchwork of new kingdoms and new rulers.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 25 June 2026
Noun
  • Butter yellow French tips cut away to reveal sheer spheres of apricot jam.
    Ariel Wodarcyk, InStyle, 29 June 2026
  • Stephen worked at Weber Brothers Metal Works at the time, welding half spheres together to make buoys.
    Kori Rumore, Chicago Tribune, 27 June 2026
Noun
  • Two of Canada’s 10 provinces, Alberta and Saskatchewan, are still selling American alcoholic beverages.
    Lizzie Kane, Sacbee.com, 3 July 2026
  • The bus went out of control and fell into the ravine in Dana Sar, a remote area near the border of Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces, Shahid Rind, a spokesperson for the Balochistan government, said.
    ABC News, ABC News, 3 July 2026

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“Bailiwicks.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bailiwicks. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.

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