Thesaurus results for PROVINCES

provinces

noun

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 The Perse version channels the country’s northern provinces along the Caspian Sea, which traditionally highlight a species of carp that swims in local waters. — Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2026 Authorities have issued bear-hunting permits across eight provinces and are seeking to procure tranquilizer dart guns to support rangers in rural areas. — CBS News, 8 Oct. 2026 Rather, it was based on joint research by eight major trade union federations examining the actual living expenses of 422 workers from 28 factories in Phnom Penh, Kandal and Kampong Speu provinces. — Jasmin Malik Chua, Footwear News, 8 Oct. 2026 While cases have slowed in Ituri province, the epicenter, the outbreak is spreading in emerging hot spots in North Kivu and South Kivu provinces. — Arkansas Online, 7 Oct. 2026 North Kivu’s case fatality rate of 58% is the highest among Congo’s seven affected provinces. — ABC News, 7 Oct. 2026 Manak noted that Canadian provinces banned US alcohol only in response to threatened US tariffs. — Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN Money, 29 Sep. 2026 Along the way, visitors can learn about the Mi’kmaq, the Indigenous First Nations inhabitants of Canada’s Atlantic provinces; the French and English influence along the coast; and the region’s reliance on fishing. — Maryam Siddiqi, Travel + Leisure, 28 Sep. 2026 Bangkok is among 41 provinces across Thailand hit by floods since September 16 that killed at least eight people and disrupted more than 580,000 homes, the ministry said. — Reuters, NBC news, 28 Sep. 2026

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Noun

The governor of New York on Monday declared a disaster emergency because of measles cases in neighboring states and in rural areas of New York.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 6 Oct. 2026
The spa itself is worthy of a visit, with spaces over three floors with an indoor-outdoor pool, spacious treatment rooms, outdoor relaxation areas, and steam and sauna rooms.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of areas

Noun

The allegations come after the California Department of Human Resources sent a notice in February 2022 outlining that departments cannot approve employee requests to regularly work from out-of-state locations.

— Corey Schmidt, Sacbee.com, 7 Oct. 2026
Major athletics departments instead spend toward sameness, waging arms races to build lookalike weight rooms.

— Chris Park, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of departments

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But surprisingly large realms of online speech remained wide open.

— Howard W. French, The New York Review of Books, 3 Oct. 2026
Getty Images Meta’s new artificial intelligence agent Muse promises to make everything from booking appointments to building playlists easier, but its rollout of agentic shopping, in particular, has the tech and retail realms buzzing.

— Caleigh Keating, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2026

Definition of realms

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For the first time in years, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers — better known as ICANN — is accepting applications for new top-level domains.

— David Pierce, The Verge, 7 Oct. 2026
Attackers hijacked three top-level domains and used their control to mint counterfeit TLS certificates for Google and other large organizations, Google said Tuesday.

— Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of domains

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On the other hand, hunger declined to historically unprecedented levels, food prices fell, life expectancy rose, and countless new industries emerged to absorb the workers no longer needed in the fields.

— Ali Kashani, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2026
Floodwaters are beginning to impact farmland, woodlands, nurseries, parks, athletic fields, golf courses, greenways, and boat-access areas with up to 2 feet of inundation.

— NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 10 Oct. 2026

Definition of fields

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The researchers encapsulated three commercially available dyes in tiny spheres of poly(methyl methacrylate), or PMMA, a transparent plastic also known as plexiglass.

— Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 10 Oct. 2026
Wagyu beef and lamb koobideh are formed into bite-size, plump spheres doused in a sweet tomato and sumac glaze.

— Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of spheres

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