ministates

noun

plural of ministate
as in republics

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  1. nation-states
  2. lands
  3. nations
  4. countries
  5. city-states
  6. kingdoms
  7. domains
  8. empires
Noun
  • Ternus’ hard technical skills may not translate easily to a position that involves toggling from Hollywood to stockholders, to politicians shaping policy, to rival CEOs in the constellation of tech companies whose power challenges nation-states.
    — Andrew R. Chow, Time, 15 Oct. 2026
  • Historically, adversarial nation-states were largely considered the biggest cybersecurity threat to critical infrastructure.
    — Justine Calma, The Verge, 20 Sep. 2026
Definition of nation-states
Noun
  • The community is now mostly scattered across Alaska, and some have relocated far from their ancestral lands.
    — Brittney Melton, NPR, 4 Nov. 2026
  • The Hero Keyboard lands somewhere between the two, designed to plug into whatever display happens to be nearby.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 4 Nov. 2026
Definition of lands
Noun
  • Leftist mainstream media outlets piled on this week to express outrage at my observation, during a speech in Grand Rapids for Mike Rogers, about the troubling dearth of scientific output from the world’s 22 Arab nations over the past five decades.
    — Gabrielle M. Etzel, The Washington Examiner, 31 Oct. 2026
  • Deployments from contributing nations have lagged and costs have risen.
    — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 30 Oct. 2026
Definition of nations
Noun
  • Rosatom wants to bring nuclear power to that market, saying 38 of Africa’s 54 countries have coastlines suitable for its floating reactors.
    — Ruben Nyanguila, semafor.com, 30 Oct. 2026
  • Our Congress has passed laws prohibiting trade with Russia and sanctioning those countries that do.
    — Letters to the Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of countries
Noun
  • Also intertwined are ancient myths of warring city-states, the raw, moody poetry of John Keats, and the modern battle between a faithless husband and his wife, the poem’s raging speaker.
    — Merve Emre, New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2026
  • His historical record of the Peloponnesian War described how Athens’ rapid rise in power alarmed Sparta and made war between the two city-states inevitable.
    — Evelyn Cheng, CNBC, 26 Sep. 2026
Definition of city-states
Noun
  • Ramsay created three similar pocket watches for James VI in the early 1600s, with the present example distinguished by four emblems on the case edge that are associated with the kingdoms of Scotland, England, Ireland and France under the king.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 3 Nov. 2026
  • The agreement followed a long struggle between the Hittite and Egyptian kingdoms for control of territory in ancient Syria.
    — Ashley Vega, PEOPLE, 25 Sep. 2026
Definition of kingdoms
Noun
  • The team also found that recombination was more likely between enzyme domains with similar DNA sequences, particularly within the same gene.
    — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2026
  • More broadly, a meta-analysis of over 100 studies found that fear appeals reliably shift attitudes and behavior across health and other domains.
    — Monique Mitchell Turner, The Conversation, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of domains
Noun
  • The territories at various times have been part of the Russian and Ottoman empires, medieval Kievan Rus’ and earlier civilizations.
    — Catherine Belton, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2026
  • The Fantasy Bra Club is a who's-who of supermodels and, now, reality TV billionaires with makeup empires.
    — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of empires
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