Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for client states
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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 -
Iran’s Kurdish provinces – Kermanshah, Kurdistan, West Azerbaijan – are home to millions of people who have already paid an enormous price for their proximity to conflict.—
John Calabrese,
The Conversation,
7 Mar. 2026
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Klobuchar plans to introduce new legislation that could help bolster disclosure requirements about the circumstances surrounding settlements, and give states more power to intervene, review, and continue cases the DOJ voluntarily dismisses.—
Jon Blistein,
Rolling Stone,
9 Mar. 2026
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Most of the settlements ranged from $22,800 for those with no physical injuries to $1 million for those whose family member died.—
Scott Travis,
Sun Sentinel,
9 Mar. 2026
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According to Tandy, as more states adopt age-verification mandates and companies race to comply, the infrastructure behind those systems is likely to become a permanent fixture of online life.—
Barbara Booth,
CNBC,
8 Mar. 2026
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But instead of helping the Postal Service, Steiner said regulators and Congress have imposed costly mandates.—
Susan Haigh,
Fortune,
6 Mar. 2026
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Third-party code, tools, or other dependencies that the system relies on and can be exploited for malicious intent are known to cause these.—
Matthew Kayser,
jsonline.com,
2 Mar. 2026
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Critics argue this creates dangerous dependencies.—
Andy Browne,
semafor.com,
24 Feb. 2026
Noun
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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
Noun
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Some coral colonies have formed over centuries and wouldn't be able to bounce back quickly if they were wiped out, Walker said.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
8 Mar. 2026
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While gray squirrels are solitary, flying squirrels may live in colonies of four to five squirrels.—
Arricca Elin SanSone,
Southern Living,
6 Mar. 2026
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Whatever their precise content, the blessings of liberty allow people to be something like sovereigns over their own lives.—
Cass Sunstein,
Big Think,
5 Mar. 2026
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The situation weighs on regional risk on the margins, but most of those sovereigns carry strong balance sheets, Appio explained.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
2 Mar. 2026
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That design choice represented a radical break from the monarchies of Europe, where kings and queens had the ability to decide when to mobilize their countries to war.—
Quinta Jurecic,
The Atlantic,
5 Mar. 2026
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Tehran's aim with the missile and drone fire has likely been to pressure the Gulf's monarchies to push their allies in Washington to end the war, but the Iranian calculus appears to be backfiring.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
3 Mar. 2026
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