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

After Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, Beregovsky and other academics from the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences were evacuated to the eastern republic of Bashkir.

— Shira Li Bartov, Sun Sentinel, 20 July 2026
The war left the new republic with extensive debts shared unevenly between the states.

— Donovan Fifield, The Conversation, 16 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

Frake-Waterfield created the TCU (ha ha) as a horror film franchise that turns public-domain children’s stories into slasher films.

— Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 24 July 2026
If millions more digital products are created because the cost of building approaches zero, then even a small percentage progressing to real-world use translates into a meaningful increase in demand for domains.

— Michael Riedl, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026

Definition of domain

Noun

Part of the Unapologetic Foods empire (which includes Semma, Dhamaka, Adda, and others), Naks is a Filipino restaurant helmed by chef Eric Valdez.

— Emma Jacobson, Bon Appetit Magazine, 24 July 2026
Charles set out accordingly to make the empire a specifically German institution.

— Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 24 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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