microstates

Definition of microstatesnext
plural of microstate

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Noun
  • Today, the self-congratulation of white liberals has been displaced by white-supremacist promoters of Western civilization who don’t merely posit but brutally enforce inequality between races, peoples, cultures, and nation-states.
    Christine Smallwood, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
  • These brave souls forged new frontiers for nation-states and planted the right flag for posterity.
    S.C. Stuart, PC Magazine, 18 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Those myths were conveyed through performance, sung in the great halls of the elite, recited at festivals all across the ancient world, staged at the theatre to large audiences, and displayed on wall paintings, mosaics, vases, and sculptures that adorned both sacred sanctuaries and city-states.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 Feb. 2026
  • With crops failing and fears of starvation rising, some wealthy Italian city-states like Florence and Venice imported grain from elsewhere in the world.
    Evan Bush, NBC news, 4 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • This is true, at least, in more than eighty-five countries around the world.
    Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2026
  • At the latter stages of the transition, aging richer countries now require workers from overseas – but are coming up against a nativist backlash.
    John Rennie Short, The Conversation, 31 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • China and India gained early access to Russian crude and maintain strategic reserves, while the opportunity for other nations to buy is rapidly shrinking.
    Anton L. Delgado, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Ten nations, including K-pop giant South Korea, the Philippines, Malaysia and Laos are set to compete in the inaugural competition, with more participants to be announced in the coming months, according to the contest’s website.
    Lex Harvey, CNN Money, 31 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Many of the messages come from domains that look official but are not government domains.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 30 Mar. 2026
  • The breach comes not long after the Justice Department earlier this month seized four domains connected to the Handala group, as part of an ongoing effort to disrupt hacking and transnational repression schemes conducted by the Islamic Republic of Iran's Ministry of Intelligence and Security.
    Sarah N. Lynch, CBS News, 27 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Cliffs of Moher, Ireland The rugged coastline of County Clare served as a dramatic setting in Harry Potter, and the wider Wild Atlantic Way has doubled as everything from fantasy kingdoms to period dramas.
    Lauren Schuster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 Mar. 2026
  • That’s County Clare’s rugged coastline, and the wider Wild Atlantic Way has doubled as everything from fantasy kingdoms to period dramas.
    Lauren Schuster, Miami Herald, 23 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • That will not be achieved with our current focus on military strength and power as well as economic domination — only an uneasy peace, until toppled by resistance and rebellion, as all the great empires have been in the past.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Indonesia’s richest man, Michael Bambang Hartono, who helped turn the Djarum cigarette company into one of the country’s largest business empires and later became a controlling shareholder of Bank Central Asia, Indonesia’s biggest private lender, died Thursday.
    Niniek Karmini, Fortune, 19 Mar. 2026
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“Microstates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/microstates. Accessed 1 Apr. 2026.

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