Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for microstates
Noun
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And there were many others in the floundering nation-states of Asia and Africa who succumbed to the American ideology of individual aggrandizement and self-cherishing.—
Pankaj Mishra,
Harpers Magazine,
19 Sep. 2025 -
This coalition was established in 2001 around the China-Russia axis to create cohesion and coordination among broadly congenial nation-states.—
Arthur I. Cyr,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Sep. 2025
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Consequently, Persia abandoned its westward expansion, while various Greek city-states formed a tenuous alliance that lasted nearly 50 years.—
Debbie Felton,
The Conversation,
8 Aug. 2025
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Most projects aimed to support countries in Southeast Asia, South Asia, and Latin America.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Nov. 2025
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The weakness of the Paris Agreement is glaringly obvious these days, as many countries pull back from their previous climate commitments under pressure from angry electorates or a worsening economy.—
Sophie Yeo,
The Dial,
4 Nov. 2025
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Researchers cited incomplete data on countries in conflict and low-income nations as a limitation of the study.—
Lindsey Leake,
CNN Money,
30 Oct. 2025
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The president has repeatedly referred to America’s trade imbalances with other nations as a national emergency worthy of such intervention.—
Kate Nishimura,
Sourcing Journal,
30 Oct. 2025
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Of course, a good number of researchers and critics have warned of the dangers of using AI in these consequential domains.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Nov. 2025
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Yet the nonprofit appears to be concealing this from visitors to its website, where a search function, the only nontechnical tool for seeing what’s in Common Crawl’s archives, returns misleading results for certain domains.—
Alex Reisner,
The Atlantic,
4 Nov. 2025
Noun
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And which Northern kingdoms does Queen Meve happen to rule over?—
Scott Meslow,
Vulture,
31 Oct. 2025
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Because monkeys bang on typewriters and kingdoms fall.—
Megan Feringa,
New York Times,
5 Oct. 2025
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In the 1950s, this was not the US but the dying empires of Britain and France, which had dominated the Middle East for the first half of the century.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
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The most gifted preachers transformed that aura into spiritual empires, drawing thousands to megachurches, filling television airwaves and sometimes amassing personal fortunes.—
Mike Hixenbaugh,
NBC news,
30 Oct. 2025
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“Microstates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/microstates. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.
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