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Recent Examples of client state
Hamas and Hezbollah, which have enjoyed Iran’s support, have also been seriously debilitated and there is a new government in Syria that is no longer a client state of Iran.
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Natasha Lindstaedt, Forbes.com, 12 Jan. 2026
Above all, China fears that its unpredictable and often aggressive client state could spark a military conflict with South Korea and the United States, potentially dragging Beijing into a second Korean War.
—Shuxian Luo, Foreign Affairs, 21 Aug. 2025
English focused on Poland because the country had a long history of underground revolutionary culture; when the USSR turned independent Poland into a client state known as the People’s Republic of Poland, the Poles already knew how to go underground to fight back.
—Valorie Castellanos Clark, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2025
Greece was seen as bulwark against Moscow and its client states in southeastern Europe.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 31 Jan. 2025
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Natasha Lindstaedt, Forbes.com, 12 Jan. 2026
Above all, China fears that its unpredictable and often aggressive client state could spark a military conflict with South Korea and the United States, potentially dragging Beijing into a second Korean War.
—Shuxian Luo, Foreign Affairs, 21 Aug. 2025
English focused on Poland because the country had a long history of underground revolutionary culture; when the USSR turned independent Poland into a client state known as the People’s Republic of Poland, the Poles already knew how to go underground to fight back.
—Valorie Castellanos Clark, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2025
Greece was seen as bulwark against Moscow and its client states in southeastern Europe.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 31 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for client state
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If a settlement agreement is reached, that could pause a trial that started in New York last week and is slated to continue for several more weeks.—
Josh Sisco,
Bloomberg,
9 Mar. 2026
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The West Coast community was once the site of a gold-mining settlement—there's even a miner's cemetery there—but today it's prized for its golden sunsets.—
Madeline Bilis,
Travel + Leisure,
8 Mar. 2026
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In total, the Trusteeship Council oversaw 11 trust territories.—
Lloyd Axworthy,
Foreign Affairs,
15 May 2024
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Somaliland became independent from Britain in 1960, a few days before Somalia, then a trust territory administered by Italy, gained its own sovereignty.—
Michael M. Phillips,
WSJ,
1 Feb. 2022
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The National Iranian Oil Refining and Distribution Company said missiles struck several facilities in Tehran and Alborz provinces and that firefighting teams were working to put the fires out.—
Omer Bekin,
NBC news,
8 Mar. 2026
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In January 2025 the Duseks’ new lodge, Few & Far Luvhondo, opened among the Soutpansberg Mountains in the Limpopo province of South Africa, with regeneration at its core.—
Lale Arikoglu,
Condé Nast Traveler,
8 Mar. 2026
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But instead of helping the Postal Service, Steiner said regulators and Congress have imposed costly mandates.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
5 Mar. 2026
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The company argues any retail coin program is a mint and exceeds the Texas Bullion Depository’s mandate.—
Paul Flahive,
Austin American Statesman,
5 Mar. 2026
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In effect, the system nudges seniors toward dependency rather than prevention.—
Saul Anuzis,
Boston Herald,
6 Mar. 2026
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According to court filings cited by CBS News, his family claims Gemini encouraged delusional thinking, escalated emotional dependency, and ultimately pushed him toward suicide.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
5 Mar. 2026
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So really being very active in other countries to promote democracy, also freedom for independent journalism and media elsewhere.—
Morgan Chalfant,
semafor.com,
9 Mar. 2026
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The letter codified the idea that the modern West—defined by liberalism, constitutionalism, and multi-party democracy—could be separated, conceptually, from the ancient West, as represented by Greece and Rome.—
Chang Che,
New Yorker,
8 Mar. 2026
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When Fritz competes on home soil, his tennis often blooms.—
Douglas Robson,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Mar. 2026
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Ford spent decades dumping hazardous waste, including paints, solvents, heavy metals, construction rubble and contaminated soil on the river floodplain into the 1960s, none of which was addressed when soils at Highland Bridge were cleaned to residential standards.—
Frederick Melo,
Twin Cities,
8 Mar. 2026
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Its founder, Ayatollah Khomeini, established a religious dictatorship that subjugates the Iranian people under sharia law, while zealously exporting its dogma by force.—
Elan Journo,
Oc Register,
10 Mar. 2026
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Marta Díaz de Lope Díaz’s ‘Another League’ chronicles the defiant birth of women’s soccer in the waning years of Francisco Franco’s arcane dictatorship in early 1970s Spain – today the reigning world champions after winning the FIFA Women’s World Cup in 2023.—
Ed Meza,
Variety,
9 Mar. 2026
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“Client state.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/client%20state. Accessed 12 Mar. 2026.
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