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client state

noun

Definition of client state

as in settlement

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Recent Examples of client state Their client state of Syria is no more. — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 12 Jan. 2026 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. — 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 Greece was seen as bulwark against Moscow and its client states in southeastern Europe. — Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 31 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for client state

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Noun

Immigration lawyers have argued that the administration is detaining people longer than allowed by previous court settlements.

— Laura Romero, ABC News, 20 Aug. 2026
That approach involves negotiating with creditors to agree on a lump-sum settlement that's less than the full amount that's owed.

— Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 19 Aug. 2026

Definition of settlement

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The separatist movement dates back to the early 1960s, when the British Southern Cameroons, a United Nations trust territory previously governed as part of Nigeria’s eastern region, was joined with Cameroon.

— ABC News, ABC News, 24 Apr. 2026
In total, the Trusteeship Council oversaw 11 trust territories.

— Lloyd Axworthy, Foreign Affairs, 15 May 2024

Definition of trust territory

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Boom time Hengdian, a town of just over 200,000 tucked in a rural part of eastern China’s Zhejiang province, had been booming with the rise of the microdrama industry in recent years.

— Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 22 Aug. 2026
As talks wore on this week, the government of Carney faced some pushback from premiers of Canada’s provinces back home.

— Steve Kopack, NBC news, 22 Aug. 2026

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The United Nations Security Council backed the plan in November — giving it international legitimacy — with a mandate for the board to oversee the demilitarization and rebuilding of Gaza.

— Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 17 Aug. 2026
The American Civil Liberties Union asked the Supreme Court on Monday to review a Texas law requiring public schools to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom, arguing the mandate violates students’ and parents’ First Amendment rights.

— Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of mandate

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Geopolitical tensions are bringing critical dependencies and chokepoints into sharper focus, while Europe faces growing security threats on its doorstep.

— Chloe Taylor, CNBC, 19 Aug. 2026
Understanding those cascading dependencies requires an architecture designed around interconnected networks rather than isolated data sets.

— Filip Popovic, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of dependency

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Chow, Lee and Ho were prominent figures within Hong Kong’s now-defunct democracy movement, which has seen most of its leaders either jailed, fled overseas or fallen silent.

— Chris Lau, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026
Polling consistently shows Marylanders oppose partisan gerrymandering, with recent surveys finding as many as 80% of respondents viewing the deliberate redrawing of district lines to favor one party as a major problem for American democracy.

— Yuripzy Morgan, Baltimore Sun, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of democracy

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The first North Korean deployment began in the Kursk region in October 2024, to repel a Ukrainian incursion, the first on Russian soil since the Nazis.

— Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026
Not a marathon, but a sprint In places such as Florida, where the sun shines for most of the year and soils are rich in nutrients, size and beauty come easily.

— Denise Hruby, Miami Herald, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of soil

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While the White House hoped to remove Díaz-Canel and the Castro family from power, the push has been complicated by the lack of a credible opposition since revolutionary brothers Fidel and Raúl overthrew the island’s military dictatorship in 1959.

— Bloomberg, Chicago Tribune, 15 Aug. 2026
The Dominican Republic's former Minister for Regional Integration Policies, Miguel Mejía, considered the measure extreme, comparable only to the rupture imposed during the 31-year dictatorship of Rafael Leonidas Trujillo that ended in 1961.

— ABC News, ABC News, 13 Aug. 2026

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