Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ministates
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Srinivasan has also published a book arguing that such privatized, business-friendly enclaves will eventually surpass nation-states.—
Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
23 Jan. 2026 -
Organizations unintentionally create systemic weaknesses that adversaries, ranging from nation-states to hackers, are keen to exploit when privacy is neglected.—
Chuck Brooks,
Forbes.com,
22 Jan. 2026
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The investigation's findings said claims had been made that staff under his predecessor had been involved in the sale of lands within the national park.—
ED DAVEY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS,
Arkansas Online,
19 Feb. 2026
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The final turn gestures at surprise but lands softly.—
Ana Gutierrez,
Austin American Statesman,
18 Feb. 2026
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As more than 10 nations in Europe are participating in the F-35 program, this raises concerns related to Trump’s tariff-heavy diplomacy.—
Chris Young,
Interesting Engineering,
17 Feb. 2026
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The sweeping tariff drawdown makes way for individual nations to negotiate bilateral agreements for economic partnership and development, which will further expand market access, Xi said in his statement.—
Kate Nishimura,
Sourcing Journal,
17 Feb. 2026
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Policymakers globally are increasingly worried that the unequal adoption of AI risks widening income and development gaps between rich and poor countries.—
Hanna Ziady,
CNN Money,
18 Feb. 2026
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Permanent-residency applications from more than seventy countries have been frozen, naturalization ceremonies cancelled.—
Jonathan Blitzer,
New Yorker,
17 Feb. 2026
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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
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An ensuing grain shortage threatened to spark a famine or civil unrest, so Italian city-states, such as Venice and Genoa, resorted to emergency imports from the Black Sea region, which helped keep the population fed.—
Jacopo Prisco,
CNN Money,
4 Dec. 2025
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But these are relatively new arrivals on Earth; all three kingdoms are less than one billion years old.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
17 Feb. 2026
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Discovering a site like this allows archaeologists to further understand the culture and society of early medieval England, when the country was fragmented into several kingdoms but rulers like Offa were beginning to unify it and Alfred the Great was fighting off Viking invaders.—
Issy Ronald,
CNN Money,
4 Feb. 2026
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Integrating unmanned logistics The Army continues to expand its use of unmanned systems across air and ground domains.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
17 Feb. 2026
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There are no better CEOs in the nation than in the airline industry – in operational, financial, strategic domains and their individual characters are sterling.—
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld,
Fortune,
16 Feb. 2026
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And, lately, the country’s ultrarich have been behaving like modern-day land barons, quietly assembling empires measured not just in acres but in square miles and state sizes.—
Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
10 Feb. 2026
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But empires fall, and dynasties crumble.—
Dieter Kurtenbach,
Mercury News,
8 Feb. 2026
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“Ministates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ministates. Accessed 20 Feb. 2026.
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