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a region of activity, knowledge, or influence
a legal question outside the doctor's province
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Recent Examples of provinces
Arctic cruise packages for summer 2026 are already on sale, but summer 2027 ships are also filling up fast with new ports and destinations open to guests (like the Canadian Arctic provinces of Newfoundland and Labrador).
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Miami Herald, 30 Oct. 2025
The force, numbering in the tens of thousands, grabs ports in the southern Chinese coastal provinces of Guangdong and Fujian and starts to push inland.
—Big Think, 29 Oct. 2025
His Freedom Advances party secured 41% of votes, leading in most provinces and finishing well ahead of the main opposition.
—Jeronimo Gonzalez, semafor.com, 28 Oct. 2025
Hurricane Warnings In Caribbean Hurricane warnings are in effect for Jamaica, as well as the Cuban provinces of Granma, Santiago de Cuba, Guantanamo, and Holguin, the NHC has said.
—Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Oct. 2025
His ties to the president go back to their overlapping service in Fujian and Zhejiang provinces in the late 1990s.
—CNN Money, 18 Oct. 2025
The Associated Press reported that dozens of other church leaders in Bejing and at least five other provinces across China were arrested Friday as well.
—Rachel Wolf, FOXNews.com, 11 Oct. 2025
The Canadian Broadcasting Corp said more than 50 Liberal members of parliament from Ontario - the most populous of the 10 provinces and the party's main stronghold - held a call on Saturday and agreed Trudeau had to step down.
—David Ljunggren, USA TODAY, 23 Dec. 2024
Whatever the reasons for the casting decisions, the Roman empire really did house people of innumerable ethnicities in provinces ranging from Scotland to Arabia.
—Jeffrey E. Schulman / Made By History, TIME, 20 Dec. 2024
Miami Herald, 30 Oct. 2025
The force, numbering in the tens of thousands, grabs ports in the southern Chinese coastal provinces of Guangdong and Fujian and starts to push inland.
—Big Think, 29 Oct. 2025
His Freedom Advances party secured 41% of votes, leading in most provinces and finishing well ahead of the main opposition.
—Jeronimo Gonzalez, semafor.com, 28 Oct. 2025
Hurricane Warnings In Caribbean Hurricane warnings are in effect for Jamaica, as well as the Cuban provinces of Granma, Santiago de Cuba, Guantanamo, and Holguin, the NHC has said.
—Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 Oct. 2025
His ties to the president go back to their overlapping service in Fujian and Zhejiang provinces in the late 1990s.
—CNN Money, 18 Oct. 2025
The Associated Press reported that dozens of other church leaders in Bejing and at least five other provinces across China were arrested Friday as well.
—Rachel Wolf, FOXNews.com, 11 Oct. 2025
The Canadian Broadcasting Corp said more than 50 Liberal members of parliament from Ontario - the most populous of the 10 provinces and the party's main stronghold - held a call on Saturday and agreed Trudeau had to step down.
—David Ljunggren, USA TODAY, 23 Dec. 2024
Whatever the reasons for the casting decisions, the Roman empire really did house people of innumerable ethnicities in provinces ranging from Scotland to Arabia.
—Jeffrey E. Schulman / Made By History, TIME, 20 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for provinces
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Tabor and Sheriff Jay Cantrell both said the new quarantine space, along with other spaces being added for medical care, the intake and release of detainees, and court proceedings may allow the sheriff's office to open some areas to new programming.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
3 Nov. 2025
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Redefine and streamline your customer engagement and product experience by deploying AI systems in high-impact areas such as order-to-cash, procure‑to‑pay, and supply chain orchestration.—
Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
3 Nov. 2025
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The nonprofit foundation, Spirit of Children, brings Halloween to kids in hospitals across the country and also raises funds for the facilities’ child life departments.—
Sam Gillette,
PEOPLE,
25 Oct. 2025
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Chapter Two resets everything back to the start of the day to show more departments.—
Jazz Tangcay,
Variety,
25 Oct. 2025
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Jack is curious about life’s mysteries and wants to learn about the elements that make up all the realms.—
Lisa Stardust,
PEOPLE,
28 Oct. 2025
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The thorium nuclear transition could enable physicists to explore previously inaccessible realms of new physics.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
27 Oct. 2025
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Of course, a good number of researchers and critics have warned of the dangers of using AI in these consequential domains.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Nov. 2025
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Yet the nonprofit appears to be concealing this from visitors to its website, where a search function, the only nontechnical tool for seeing what’s in Common Crawl’s archives, returns misleading results for certain domains.—
Alex Reisner,
The Atlantic,
4 Nov. 2025
Noun
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And which Northern kingdoms does Queen Meve happen to rule over?—
Scott Meslow,
Vulture,
31 Oct. 2025
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Because monkeys bang on typewriters and kingdoms fall.—
Megan Feringa,
New York Times,
5 Oct. 2025
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And, of course, Amherst had freed Black people, and I was told that there were Black people who were working for the family outside of the house, in the fields and gardens.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
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Sixty leading experts from a range of fields, including medicine, public health, criminology, law and the technology sector, convened earlier this year to create an action plan to address the problem.—
NPR,
NPR,
3 Nov. 2025
Noun
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In his own secret lair, Vilgefortz learns from Istredd that Ciri possesses a the power to collapse space and time — not only for the Continent, but for other spheres of reality.—
Scott Meslow,
Vulture,
30 Oct. 2025
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These are frequently shaped into nested spheres—though there are many exceptions, including intricate axial symmetries.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Oct. 2025
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My nearly two-year-old son recognizes that late-morning stroller walks might be an opportunity for a croissant and makes demands accordingly.—
James Somers,
New Yorker,
3 Nov. 2025
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Langevin has allowed one run in three games but has issued five walks and Colleran has five strikeouts in four innings.—
Jaylon Thompson,
Kansas City Star,
3 Nov. 2025
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“Provinces.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/provinces. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.
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