Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ministates
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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
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That evening, residents said fires burned two uninhabited homes that sat on active farm and grazing lands.—
Eduardo Cuevas,
USA Today,
25 Mar. 2026
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This leaves 427 acres, or 2%, as remaining lands.—
Abigail Hasebroock,
Sun Sentinel,
25 Mar. 2026
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The Philippines declared a national emergency as fuel shortages caused by the war in Iran threatened its economic stability, one of a number of Asian nations scrambling to address a looming lack of energy.—
Jeronimo Gonzalez,
semafor.com,
25 Mar. 2026
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Although Nigeria was temporarily suspended from the Commonwealth group of nations, the oil industry continued its operations, and federal governments continued to misappropriate their share of the revenues and violently suppress protests.—
Noo Saro-Wiwa,
The Dial,
24 Mar. 2026
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On Tuesday, after dozens of tit-for-tat strikes between the two countries, oil prices climbed again.—
Sudarsan Raghavan,
New Yorker,
25 Mar. 2026
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Across Asia, countries are investing heavily in nuclear power, hydrogen infrastructure, and grid expansion to secure long-term resilience.—
Derek Chollet,
semafor.com,
25 Mar. 2026
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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
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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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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
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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
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ProPublica reviewed records of that meeting, providing a rare look at a dramatic shift underway in one of the most sensitive domains of public policy.—
Avi Asher-Schapiro,
ProPublica,
24 Mar. 2026
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Should companies like Google be required to automatically block lookalike domains that pretend to run official security checks before people fall for them?—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
21 Mar. 2026
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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
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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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“Ministates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ministates. Accessed 31 Mar. 2026.
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