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a region of activity, knowledge, or influence
the logistics of the relief effort is the director's fief
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Recent Examples of fiefs
Small towns in Texas once operated like patriarchal fiefs, with a singular figure dominating local business, politics, and real estate; the town or county may have even shared a name with his family.
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Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2026
Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fiefs
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Feik said the two cubs are healthy and will be relocated to a facility before being moved into wildland areas.—
Matthew Rodriguez,
CBS News,
18 Mar. 2026
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Made with shiny silver chrome, the sleek design features two different head attachments (one for brushing and one for polishing) and four cleaning modes designed for different areas of your teeth.—
Grace McCarty,
Glamour,
18 Mar. 2026
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Without a rigid crystal structure getting in the way, the magnetic domains can reorient much more freely when the magnetic field changes.—
Etiido Uko
March 17,
New Atlas,
17 Mar. 2026
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Ursa Major also aims to rapidly deploy these critical capabilities across all combat domains — land, air, sea, and space.—
Mrigakshi Dixit,
Interesting Engineering,
13 Mar. 2026
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Democrats balked at funding the agency, while other departments are unaffected, demanding changes to immigration enforcement by federal agents.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
22 Mar. 2026
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Backers warn that without the billionaire tax, dozens of hospitals and emergency departments could also be forced to close.—
Ben Paviour,
Sacbee.com,
21 Mar. 2026
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Stanton’s disdain for immigrants led her into emergent realms of pseudoscience that would transform into eugenics; her rhetoric about women strayed from the principle of gender equality into essentialist ideas about women’s feminine specialness.—
Moira Donegan,
New Yorker,
13 Mar. 2026
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New realms would stop appearing; the intensities of the forces would stabilize; and gravity would turn out to make perfect sense after all.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
11 Mar. 2026
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Over the course of decades, the Nationalists clashed with the Communist Party led by future dictator Mao Zedong, the Japanese Empire (which controlled the formerly Chinese island of Taiwan), and various warlords seeking to carve out their own kingdoms amid the chaos.—
Timothy Nerozzi,
The Washington Examiner,
13 Mar. 2026
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Most kingdoms don’t fall without a battle.—
Noah White,
Miami Herald,
13 Mar. 2026
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Candidates from all walks of life run for Congress each election cycle, from backgrounds in politics and government to adjacent fields such as law or public policy, but some hopefuls are leveraging their public profile as media personalities to help drive their campaigns.—
David Zimmermann,
The Washington Examiner,
23 Mar. 2026
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Fear, isolation in the fields, language barriers, and immigration status continue to make farmworkers particularly vulnerable to exploitation.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
23 Mar. 2026
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The sisters' ensembles, which varied slightly from each other, were two-piece sets of crop tops and shorts or miniskirts with clusters of transparent spheres layered over nude fabric.—
Ashley Hume,
FOXNews.com,
16 Mar. 2026
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In the late 19th century Ludwig Boltzmann modeled [gas molecules] as little billiard balls—little hard spheres that are bouncing around.—
Tim Folger,
Scientific American,
16 Mar. 2026
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Nighttime curfews have also been imposed in the coastal provinces of Guayas, Los Rios, Santo Domingo de los Tsachilas and El Oro during the next two weeks.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
16 Mar. 2026
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The army will also work to combat crime in the North West, Free State and Eastern Cape provinces.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
16 Mar. 2026
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“Fiefs.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fiefs. Accessed 25 Mar. 2026.
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