microstate

noun

Definition of microstatenext
as in nation-state

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Recent Examples of microstate No nation in the world — at least beyond a few microstates within a broader customs union — has no customs enforcement whatsoever. — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 14 Apr. 2026 Pope Leo on Saturday made a day trip to Monaco, a tax-free microstate on the French ⁠Riviera known as a haven for billionaires and their luxury yachts, and urged its residents to share their wealth and help those in need. — Reuters, NBC news, 28 Mar. 2026 The incident drew outcry from the microstate’s tiny Jewish community, which only just got its first full-time rabbi, a Chabad emissary, in the last two years. — Grace Gilson, Sun Sentinel, 23 Feb. 2026 Mini, competing in slalom and giant slalom events, hails from San Marino, the second-smallest independent microstate in Italy, one covering only 25 square miles of the Apennine Mountains. — Brittany Ghiroli, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2026 Swiatek will likely also pay an additional 4% tax in Poland, reducing her championship winnings by an additional $162,000. Sinner, originally from Italy, will pay no additional taxes because his primary residence is in the income tax-free microstate of Monaco. — Ty Roush, Forbes.com, 13 July 2025 According to the 2025 Knight Frank Wealth Report, a cool $1 million will get you just 205 square feet of space in this glittering microstate on the French Riviera. — Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 12 Mar. 2025 Surrounded by Italy on all sides, this microstate — the third smallest in Europe — has stubbornly clung to its independence over the centuries, even as revolutions and world wars swirled around it. — Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 9 Oct. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for microstate
  1. nation-state
  2. republic
  3. city-state
  4. nation
  5. domain
  6. empire
  7. commonwealth
  8. ministate
Noun
  • Experts warn that models proficient in coding can rapidly chain vulnerabilities, leading to an increase in zero-day threats and making sophisticated cyberattacks more accessible, even to nation-state actors.
    — Tim Keary, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
  • The drive to define the face as a data point, something to be grasped and controlled, underpins the bureaucracy of the modern nation-state, in which faces are surveyed, categorized, and stored in digital banks.
    — Cal Revely-Calder, New Yorker, 29 June 2026
Definition of nation-state
Noun
  • Like our democratic republic itself, these efforts are decentralized — local, pragmatic, and responsive to what communities actually need.
    — Brendan Bechtel, Fortune, 25 July 2026
  • Early diplomatic ties India gained independence from Britain in 1947 and became a republic in 1950.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 22 July 2026
Definition of republic
Noun
  • Just as oil money transformed and modernized the Gulf into city-states of gleaming skyscrapers, centuries of wine money have polished this rural corner of Burgundy into an agri-luxury oasis.
    — George Nelson for ArtNews, Robb Report, 9 July 2026
  • The joint city-state Bus Action Plan also commits the MTA to improving bus maintenance across the fleet.
    — Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 8 July 2026
Definition of city-state
Noun
  • On Tuesday, the Department of Homeland Security announced more than 100 people with criminal backgrounds had been returned to the Caribbean nation on July 16 aboard a deportation flight.
    — David Lyons, Sun Sentinel, 25 July 2026
  • The alliance’s political headquarters is in Brussels, where ambassadors from member nations meet to discuss defense spending, drone incursions and cyber threats.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 25 July 2026
Definition of nation
Noun
  • The opportunity in modern operations comes from giving data enough structure to reveal meaning across domains.
    — Kannan Kothandaraman, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
  • Conceivably, a rights buyer would have no more protection than anyone publishing a work in the public domain.
    — Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 30 July 2026
Definition of domain
Noun
  • Amara’s part of Michael Schwartz’s empire, but the chef is Maite Zarrabeitia, an Argentine who has a way with empanadas.
    — Connie Ogle July 31, Miami Herald, 31 July 2026
  • Meryl Streep started her family—aka, an empire of underrated creatives—with ex-husband Don Gummer at age 30, and had her youngest daughter Louisa Jacobson at 41.
    — Adrianne Reece, InStyle, 31 July 2026
Definition of empire
Noun
  • Ahead of the trial, the commonwealth also filed a motion to admit audio recordings of the 911 call Patrick Clancy made after returning home and discovering his family.
    — Chelsea Bailey, CNN Money, 20 July 2026
  • But Spanberger remains determined in her mission to deliver a more affordable commonwealth to Virginians, touting her signing of the Affordable Virginia Agenda into law in a Friday statement.
    — Molly Parks, The Washington Examiner, 17 July 2026
Definition of commonwealth
Noun
  • His ministate is hierarchical, patriarchal and militaristic, a utilitarian utopia rather than a revolutionary experiment.
    — New York Times, New York Times, 13 May 2021
  • Islamic State also tried to establish a ministate of its own in the Indonesian regency of Poso, on Sulawesi island, in 2015.
    — Yaroslav Trofimov, WSJ, 7 June 2018
Definition of ministate

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