Thesaurus results for MICROSTATE

microstate

noun

Definition of microstate

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

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Noun

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
Louden points out, for example, that Swedish and Norwegian are highly mutually intelligible, but neither is considered a dialect of the other, or of a parent language, primarily because each is associated with a separate nation-state.

— Eythana Miller, The Dial, 23 June 2026

Definition of nation-state

Noun

This swept away Iran’s monarchy and birthed a state that is part theocracy, part republic, with a handful of semi-democratic institutions swaddled by a system that is ultimately clerical.

— Xiaoqian Lin, CNN Money, 6 July 2026
On America’s 250th, the president has elevated some important debates about the mechanics of running a self-governing republic.

— Susan Shelley, Oc Register, 5 July 2026

Definition of republic

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Authorities in the wealthy city-state of Monaco have launched a manhunt that’s stretched across the border into France after several people were wounded in an explosion caused by a bomb that was planted in a residential building.

— Lex Harvey, CNN Money, 30 June 2026
Athens was a belligerent city-state that fell victim to its own aggressions.

— Alex Ross, New Yorker, 15 June 2026

Definition of city-state

Noun

Some two dozen nations have sent some 3,000 emergency personnel to Venezuela.

— Mery Mogollón, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2026
Both countries have stepped up efforts to safeguard freedom of navigation and uphold international law in the strait, including hosting a summit with 51 other nations in April.

— Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN Money, 4 July 2026

Definition of nation

Noun

Kinaxis wants to be responsible for the outcomes and maintenance of these composable solutions by deploying teams that provide customers with domain, industry, and technical expertise, depending on the stage of the journey.

— Steve Banker, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026
If that happens, future AI systems could span multiple racks while behaving as a single computing domain, connected via a mix of electrical, optical, and perhaps other emerging technologies.

— IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 9 July 2026

Definition of domain

Noun

The future of Harold’s Chicken Shack empire may soon be determined by a Will County probate judge.

— Sam Charles, Chicago Tribune, 9 July 2026
In Season 2, it’s been one year since Eddie (James) and Susie (Scodelario) joined forces to work together in Bobby’s (Ray Winstone) criminal empire overseas.

— Denise Petski, Deadline, 9 July 2026

Definition of empire

Noun

The island of Rota, part of the Northern Mariana Islands commonwealth of the United States, was dealt a devastating blow on Monday as the island was battered by Super Typhoon Bavi.

— Matthew Cappucci, Washington Post, 6 July 2026
The Pennsylvania Game Commission says the commonwealth is home to both red and gray foxes.

— Madeline Bartos, CBS News, 25 June 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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