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client states

noun

plural of client state

as in trust territories

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Kabul and the United Nations Mission in Afghanistan said the strikes in Helmand and Kunar provinces had killed at least 10 civilians, most of them children.

— MUNIR AHMED, Arkansas Online, 2 Oct. 2026
Manak noted that Canadian provinces banned US alcohol only in response to threatened US tariffs.

— Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN Money, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of provinces

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Large settlements often attract phishing attempts because scammers know people are looking for claim information.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 29 Sep. 2026
That reporting revealed that the state frequently seizes money from legal settlements stemming from medical malpractice, police brutality, workplace injury and other wrongful death lawsuits.

— Ginny Monk, Hartford Courant, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of settlements

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Justifying the use of force on their campuses, schools primarily deferred to just this idea of protocol, citing arcane policy mandates to disband encampments and occupations so that academic production could resume its flow.

— Sophie Landres, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
Enforcing rigid standards prematurely—as early Space Development Agency (SDA) mandates demonstrated—can freeze sub-optimal designs and throttle rapid tech iteration.

— Rohit Jha, Forbes.com, 1 Oct. 2026

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This includes how the enterprise deliberately shapes its external capabilities, interfaces, standards, data exchanges and commercial dependencies without allowing the vehicle to become an uncontrolled collection of third-party technologies.

— Rajjie Sarmey, Forbes.com, 25 Sep. 2026
There are now 17 African countries and two dependencies that have French as their official language or as one of multiple official languages.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of dependencies

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Introduced crawling through the Trask family’s field, her black blood spattering their rich soil like a human pesticide, Cathy personifies the series’ potent blend of dread and beauty.

— Ben Travers, IndieWire, 1 Oct. 2026
During dry periods, soil-dwelling bacteria produce a compound called geosmin that deters insects such as fruit flies.

— Gregory Wakeman, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of soil

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Police are continuing their investigation and are appealing for information that could help locate the missing colonies or identify those responsible.

— Chas Newkey-Burden, TheWeek, 27 Sep. 2026
Management of cat colonies that don’t have that impact is left up to cities and counties, and some consider feral cats a public nuisance and allow their animal control officers to trap and remove them.

— Michael L. Hyman, Miami Herald, 23 Sep. 2026

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On 28 July, Moody’s changed its MENA outlook from stable to negative, noting that the impairment of shipping through the Strait of Hormuz will weigh on the growth of Gulf sovereigns, as well as their fiscal and external positions.

— Melissa Hancock, Fortune, 12 Aug. 2026
As one of the big three ratings agencies, alongside Fitch and Moody’s, S&P Global plays a crucial role in determining whether African sovereigns and businesses can secure capital from international financial markets.

— Alexander Onukwue, semafor.com, 29 July 2026

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