client states

noun

plural of client state
as in trust territories

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  1. provinces
  2. settlements
  3. fatherlands
  4. mandates
  5. dependencies
  6. soil
  7. colonies
  8. sovereigns
Noun
  • Amata Corporation, founded in 1989, built industrial parks across Thailand’s Rayong and Chon Buri provinces.
    — Angelica Ang, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2026
  • Its signal reaches up to ninety-five per cent of the province, which is the size of Minnesota, along with parts of two neighboring provinces.
    — Jordan Salama, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of provinces
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  • The United Kingdom’s top diplomat warned companies against violating international law by helping to build Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 19 Oct. 2026
  • The grave dates to a period when people were transitioning from hunting and gathering to living in permanent settlements, farming and raising livestock, according to officials.
    — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2026
Definition of settlements
Noun
  • Now your benevolence and friendship offers us beautiful Europe and great America as fatherlands.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 24 July 2026
Definition of fatherlands
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  • There is just the slow hiss and sigh of the machines, tucked safely out of sight, as social media filled with resistance to mask mandates, to empathy and authority, to the power of the state, and the chorus of anti-vaxxers grew.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2026
  • The Academy of Pediatrics says decisions about gender affirming care should be made by patients and physicians, not government mandates.
    — Shaun Boyd, CBS News, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of mandates
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  • Producing the code may take hours instead of days, but the team still has to understand dependencies, test downstream systems and avoid an outage.
    — Luis Aburto, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of dependencies
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  • Obviously, the network of partners and proxies did not deter an attack on Iranian soil.
    — Ali Vaez, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2026
  • The work raises new questions about soil, carbon, and even what counts as an individual organism.
    — Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of soil
Noun
  • To be fair, some British ships were engaged in illicit trade in the Spanish colonies.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Although iguana colonies remain relatively stable, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) still lists them as Vulnerable due to predators, mounting pollution issues, and cyclical El Niño events.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of colonies
Noun
  • Only three African sovereigns hold investment grade ratings, according to a background note from the AU’s African Peer Review Mechanism (ARPM).
    — Tiisetso Motsoeneng, semafor.com, 7 Oct. 2026
  • Any harm was downstream, but the river was part of an interstate system governed by a compact between sovereigns.
    — Gale Norton, Denver Post, 4 Oct. 2026
Definition of sovereigns
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