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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As long as the flight takes off and lands, the transaction feels complete.—
Shain Shapiro,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
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The rule prohibits road construction and timber harvesting on nearly 45 million acres of national forest lands, including those in northern Wisconsin.—
Frank Vaisvilas,
jsonline.com,
28 Jan. 2026
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Coming from nations, and ships, with clear hierarchies and orders of command, Europeans arrived in a take-me-to-your-leader frame of mind.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Jan. 2026
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A number of European nations have taken hardline policies on immigration, like Italy’s controversial practice of sending asylum seekers rescued at sea to deportation centers.—
Pau Mosquera,
CNN Money,
27 Jan. 2026
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Decoding the reasons A potential breakout of World War cannot be ruled out in the present, with multiple countries going at loggerheads over various issues.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
28 Jan. 2026
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Its dual mission is to bridge the early-stage funding gap and guarantee global access, ensuring products aren’t confined to wealthy markets for decades but are introduced in low- and middle-income countries in parallel.—
Ana Castelain,
Bloomberg,
28 Jan. 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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The burial ground dates back to a significant time in English history, when regional kingdoms started to form and consolidate power.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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The early Iron Age kingdoms of Neo-Assyria, Egypt, Israel and Judah, and their relationship to the Phoenician cities, underlie our understanding of these events.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 Jan. 2026
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In these domains, embracing merit may have its flaws.—
Kenji Yoshino,
Mercury News,
24 Jan. 2026
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Local governments operate mostly independently, and business and institutional leaders have power over their domains.—
Marc Novicoff,
The Atlantic,
21 Jan. 2026
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Test your knowledge of sports soundtracks, entertainment empires and more in this week's American Culture Quiz.—
Staff,
FOXNews.com,
23 Jan. 2026
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Prosperous empires throughout history have suffered failures born from complacency.—
Jamie Holmes,
Twin Cities,
22 Jan. 2026
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“Ministates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ministates. Accessed 31 Jan. 2026.
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