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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.
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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
In the early stages of the Cold War, Hungary, a client state controlled by the USSR, rebelled, fueled by student demonstrations arguing for secession and freedom of speech.
—Daniel Seifert, JSTOR Daily, 5 Feb. 2025
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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
In the early stages of the Cold War, Hungary, a client state controlled by the USSR, rebelled, fueled by student demonstrations arguing for secession and freedom of speech.
—Daniel Seifert, JSTOR Daily, 5 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for client state
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When Texas experimented with a similar citizenship data review process in 2019, three federal lawsuits were filed, and three months in, the Texas secretary of state agreed to end the experiment as part of a settlement.—
Kayla Dwyer,
IndyStar,
21 Oct. 2025
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Nearly two dozen lawmakers in Netanyahu’s coalition signed a letter to Israel’s defense minister urging him to permit activists into Gaza itself to scout possible settlement locations.—
Yair Rosenberg,
The Atlantic,
21 Oct. 2025
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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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Lima, Peru Reuters — Peru’s President Jose Jeri declared on Tuesday a 30-day state of emergency in the capital Lima and the neighboring province of Callao, saying the move was to battle rising crime.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
22 Oct. 2025
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The fundamental material, the ingots and the wafers, probably 45% of that is in Xinjiang province.—
Fortune Editors,
Fortune,
22 Oct. 2025
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Ohio law already limits how schools can approach vaccine mandates.—
Grace Tucker,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
18 Oct. 2025
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Voices in the power industry note other factors raising electric bills, such as state-level mandates for clean energy.—
Daniel de Visé,
USA Today,
18 Oct. 2025
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Guy is their newest inductee, a 20something with an iffy American accent (Denton is Australian), a worrying clonazepam dependency, a fancy NYU law degree and — of most interest to the Talamasca — a rare ability to read minds.—
Angie Han,
HollywoodReporter,
24 Oct. 2025
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South Africa, on the other hand, announced a plan to reduce its dependency on coal from 58% of its energy mix now to 29% by 2039, in particular planning to boost spending on nuclear power.—
Ben Smith,
semafor.com,
24 Oct. 2025
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The protests were part of thousands of rallies held across the country, in cities large and small, to express concern about the future of the country and democracy.—
Claire Wang,
Oc Register,
19 Oct. 2025
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And that, in a democracy, people can stand up and voice their opinions.—
Dalia Faheid,
CNN Money,
19 Oct. 2025
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Derby County had done the same 24 hours earlier, leaving Norwich, Blackburn Rovers and Sheffield Wednesday as the remaining clubs yet to triumph on home soil.—
Richard Sutcliffe,
New York Times,
23 Oct. 2025
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The primary sources of heavy metal contamination in the cow’s environment, said Akinleye, are feed, water and soil.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
22 Oct. 2025
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Written and directed by Pérez Rial, the film reconstructs the exile of Sosa, who was arrested during a 1978 concert in La Plata and later forced to flee Argentina’s dictatorship.—
Emiliano De Pablos,
Variety,
20 Oct. 2025
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Caesar's Legion is a straight-up totalitarian dictatorship of LARPers playing Romans.—
Fran Ruiz,
Space.com,
19 Oct. 2025
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“Client state.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/client%20state. Accessed 26 Oct. 2025.
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