Thesaurus results for PROVINCES

provinces

noun

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plural of province

as in areas

a region of activity, knowledge, or influence a legal question outside the doctor's province

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Recent Examples of provinces Another perk of moving to Italy in retirement is that the country has a flat seven percent tax on income for new retiree residents who move to the central Abruzzo provinces of L'Aquila, Chieti, Pescara, and Teramo. —

Dobrina Zhekova, Travel + Leisure, 1 June 2026 The rapidly escalating Bundibugyo Ebola virus outbreak centered in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was confirmed on May 17 in Ituri, North Kivu and South Kivu provinces. —

Jane Weaver, NBC news, 29 May 2026 For several months after Hurricane Melissa hammered the island’s eastern provinces in 2025, Washington supported smaller humanitarian shipments to Cuba. —

Dulce Suarez, The Conversation, 28 May 2026 Cases have also been reported in two other eastern provinces, North Kivu and South Kivu, where the M23 rebels are in control, and also in the neighboring country of Uganda. —

Gerald Imray, Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2026 Cases have also been reported in two other eastern provinces, North Kivu and South Kivu, where the M23 rebels are in control, and also in the neighboring country of Uganda. —

ABC News, 24 May 2026 In contrast to the clay-rich rare earth deposits in China’s southern provinces, Jiangxi, Hunan, Fujian, Guangdong and Guangxi, the new resources do not require chemical leaching to extract the minerals. —

Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 18 May 2026 As Africa's second-largest country by land area, Congo's provinces are far from one another and mostly battling conflict. —

CBS News, 16 May 2026 Earlier this week, along a desolate stretch of road lined with oil refineries just north of the border between Shandong and Hebei provinces, an awareness of that spotlight seemed palpable. —

Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 12 May 2026

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As previously mentioned, tough decisions will need to be made this summer around Romero, Vicario and Richarlison, but any money Spurs earn from potentially selling them can be reinvested in other areas of the squad.

— Jay Harris, New York Times, 2 June 2026
In winter, warm-season grass grows minimally or not at all in some areas.

— Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 June 2026