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as in areas
a region of activity, knowledge, or influence
medieval history is really Professor Clinton's realm, so I'll let her answer your question
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as in confines
an area over which activity, capacity, or influence extends
a medical breakthrough that is within the realm of possibility
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Recent Examples of realms
The campus includes a towering museum that covers the political and personal realms of the nation’s first Black president and first lady, while public spaces include a branch of the Chicago Public Library, a playground and athletic center, basketball courts and a picnic area with grills.
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Claire Savage,
Fortune,
20 June 2026
The campus includes a towering museum that covers the political and personal realms of the nation’s first Black president and first lady, while public spaces include a branch of the Chicago Public Library, a playground and athletic center, basketball courts and a picnic area with grills.
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ABC News,
19 June 2026
The campus includes a towering museum that covers the political and personal realms of the nation’s first Black president and first lady, while public spaces include a branch of the Chicago Public Library, a playground and athletic center, basketball courts and a picnic area with grills.
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Lauryn Overhultz,
FOXNews.com,
18 June 2026
In the fall the realms of American football and basketball meet as the Colts and the Pacers respectively kick off and tip off their seasons.
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Kat Chen,
Condé Nast Traveler,
16 June 2026
Her Taurus moon also occupies her 12th house, an area of the birth chart associated with spirituality, secrecy and subconscious realms.
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Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
15 June 2026
The practice has now practically become standard in certain realms of indie watchmaking.
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Paige Reddinger,
Robb Report,
14 June 2026
In our increasingly fragmented media environment, sports remains one of the last realms in which massive global audiences gather together in real time.
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Sam Jacobs,
Time,
9 June 2026
The roughly $850-million project covers the political and personal realms of the nation’s first Black president.
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Sophia Tareen,
Los Angeles Times,
4 June 2026
Claire Savage,
Fortune,
20 June 2026
The campus includes a towering museum that covers the political and personal realms of the nation’s first Black president and first lady, while public spaces include a branch of the Chicago Public Library, a playground and athletic center, basketball courts and a picnic area with grills.
—
ABC News,
19 June 2026
The campus includes a towering museum that covers the political and personal realms of the nation’s first Black president and first lady, while public spaces include a branch of the Chicago Public Library, a playground and athletic center, basketball courts and a picnic area with grills.
—
Lauryn Overhultz,
FOXNews.com,
18 June 2026
In the fall the realms of American football and basketball meet as the Colts and the Pacers respectively kick off and tip off their seasons.
—
Kat Chen,
Condé Nast Traveler,
16 June 2026
Her Taurus moon also occupies her 12th house, an area of the birth chart associated with spirituality, secrecy and subconscious realms.
—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
15 June 2026
The practice has now practically become standard in certain realms of indie watchmaking.
—
Paige Reddinger,
Robb Report,
14 June 2026
In our increasingly fragmented media environment, sports remains one of the last realms in which massive global audiences gather together in real time.
—
Sam Jacobs,
Time,
9 June 2026
The roughly $850-million project covers the political and personal realms of the nation’s first Black president.
—
Sophia Tareen,
Los Angeles Times,
4 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for realms
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Unlike areas to the north, there is little agricultural demand for compost and mulch.
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Commentary On the call, Subramaniam said the company is growing revenue in the most premium areas of the global economy.
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Permissions are increasingly derived at runtime from natural-language intent in ways that OAuth scopes were never designed to govern.
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Federal prosecutors allege that Ross and Rhodes concealed their fraud scheme by submitting false documents to CHA, including proposals, scopes of work and invoices.
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So physical capacity is critical, starting with these four domains.
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Equipped with advanced sensor suites, sonobuoy processing systems, and secure communications networks, the aircraft provides commanders with a comprehensive operational picture across expansive maritime domains.
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Hunt, Avantika, and Angus are especially good as overgrown kids trying, to varying extents, to hide their softness beneath ambition.
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Throughout its history the company has gone through the ebbs and flows of the jewelry sector, impacted to various extents by wars, macroeconomic volatility and geopolitical disruption.
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Other departments have shared such images with the public sooner.
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Stretching across a large swath of the National Mall, the fair has dozens of pavilions for 56 states and territories and numerous executive-branch departments, in addition to a Ferris wheel, a rodeo, and other displays from companies and organizations, many of them Trump-aligned.
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The launch marks a new chapter for a series that dates back to 1985, when Sanlorenzo introduced the fiberglass SL57, the first model in what would become one of yachting’s most recognizable ranges.
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Being much smaller, this new portable version can’t quite reach those ranges, however.
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To determine the velocities of both spheres after collision, physicists use the fact that the total energy and momentum are the same before and after the collision.
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Kirk helped popularize some of the principles of Seven Mountains, introducing the idea of the seven spheres to his millions of followers.
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Definitely include the piece's dimensions in your listing, Kristin Keyes, the founder of Kristin Keyes Interiors, says.
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All of these dimensions are thought to be as small as physically possible — close to the Planck scale (10-35 meters) — but the researchers proposed that the dark dimension could be significantly bigger than the others — on the order of a micron (10-6 meters).
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“Realms.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/realms. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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