Thesaurus results for FIEFS

fiefs

noun

plural of fief

as in areas

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. — Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2026

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Noun

As disaster risks rise, the costs of goods, services and reconstruction in affected areas may increase further, while local real estate development and investment will also face higher risk premiums.

— , CNBC, 4 Aug. 2026
Recently, the Pulaski County Quorum Court rejected a measure that would have established a 12-month moratorium on new data centers within unincorporated areas of the county.

— Joseph Flaherty, Arkansas Online, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of areas

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Citation analysis identifies the domains and exact URLs influencing those answers, helping teams see whether their own pages, publishers or other third-party sources shape the response.

— Kaitlyn Gomez, USA Today, 6 Aug. 2026
Matt is Chief Revenue Officer at Identity Digital, a global leader in next-generation top-level domains and digital identity.

— Matt Overman, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026

Definition of domains

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The county executive’s chartered responsibilities include overseeing the county’s municipal departments, correcting errors in tax assessments, executing certain contracts, upholding the county charter and representing the county in general.

— Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 5 Aug. 2026
Early Tuesday morning, the volcano spewed lava that reached a height of about 300 meters (984 feet), triggering red alerts, evacuations, a highway’s closure, and the suspension of classes in three departments.

— ABC News, ABC News, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of departments

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That’s perhaps not much comfort to the Philippines and other rival claimants to the South China Sea who are on the receiving end of Chinese hard power — in a world where, increasingly, in both the physical and digital realms, might makes right.

— Andy Browne, semafor.com, 4 Aug. 2026
To map out these heavenly realms takes a certain amount of ego and pollyannaism otherwise absent from Reilly’s worldview.

— Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 30 July 2026

Definition of realms

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For a long time, our leading hypothesis was bullying and violence, but that may be a bit impractical, given their kingdoms are vast networks of tunnels that can stretch for up to three kilometers.

— Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 21 July 2026
These stresses put pressure on all of the existing, interconnected kingdoms in the Mediterranean.

— Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 20 July 2026

Definition of kingdoms

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Insider tip Follow the paths through the lavender fields at sunset, when the bees begin to settle and the fields catch the last of the ethereal light.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Aug. 2026
Platsdarm’s volunteers go into fields and forests, among ruins and across territory, where the ground is often mined.

— ABC News, ABC News, 8 Aug. 2026

Definition of fields

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LipLift is powered by the brand’s proprietary Hyaluron Peptide-6 BioFill, a topical volumizing technology formulated with six advanced biomimetic peptides, hyaluronic acid oil, poly-hyaluronic acid filling spheres and bioidentical skin lipids.

— Kathryn Hopkins, Footwear News, 4 Aug. 2026
Today, various combinations are packed into cardboard spheres or cylinders—shells—along with fuses coated in a flammable slurry, then sealed inside kraft paper and shot from fibreglass mortars.

— Paige Williams, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of spheres

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Ports and airports halt operations Rain and strong winds are expected to affect eastern China through August 12, including parts of Shanghai and neighbouring provinces.

— Reuters, NBC news, 8 Aug. 2026
Despite its conservative theological stances, the ACK has been among the African Anglican provinces to expand women’s leadership.

— Stephanie TriplettAll, Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 Aug. 2026

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