realms

plural of realm

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Recent Examples of realms These bog bodies tell stories of a time when humans were sacrificed to the gods in bogs, as otherworldly margins between the human and divine realms, or when social outcasts met a cruel, violent end for failing to conform to societal standards. — Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2026 Dante populated his realms of Hell and Purgatory with figures, monsters and moral frameworks borrowed directly from classical Greek and Roman myths. — Ed Meza, Variety, 13 Oct. 2026 His lack of experience in the realms of ballet, classical music, opera, and jazz, formerly the center’s mainstays, have concerned some onlookers. — News Desk, Artforum, 9 Oct. 2026 Data quality and availability was the leading barrier, cited by 61 percent of respondents within the shipper and 3PL realms, followed by legacy system integration at 54 percent and budget constraints at 46 percent. — Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 6 Oct. 2026 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 Painter Sasha Gordon reckons with these depths and contradictions by conjuring realms where all facets of being can exist, unguarded and exposed. — Chanel Miller, Time, 30 Sep. 2026 Luminaries from various cultural realms also figure in the operatic film, among them Deborah Harry, Jonas Mekas, Joan La Barbara, Milford Graves, Salman Rushdie, Dick Cavett, John Buffalo Mailer, Larry Holmes, Lawrence Weiner, and Barney himself. — Andy Battaglia, ARTnews.com, 29 Sep. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for realms
Noun
  • Cult members lived in makeshift homes of polythene sheeting and thatch that Mackenzie divided into areas with biblical names like Jerusalem and Judea.
    — Jefferson Kahinju Reuters, Arkansas Online, 20 Oct. 2026
  • The bar for engaging in major conflicts outside the core strategic areas of Europe and East Asia should be quite high.
    — Charles Kupchan, Foreign Affairs, 19 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Confining Employees To Rigid Roles As a business grows, team members with rigid, constrained scopes may stop working or supporting others outside their existing scope.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 15 Oct. 2026
  • These involve a cancer screening test, followed by a surgical procedure involving robotic scopes.
    — Tara Molina, CBS News, 11 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • The team also found that recombination was more likely between enzyme domains with similar DNA sequences, particularly within the same gene.
    — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2026
  • More broadly, a meta-analysis of over 100 studies found that fear appeals reliably shift attitudes and behavior across health and other domains.
    — Monique Mitchell Turner, The Conversation, 23 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • But all five nations also maintain significant commercial and diplomatic links with Russia and, to varying extents, China and Iran, a fact that Rubio acknowledged.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 20 Oct. 2026
  • Our politics, cultures, and wars manipulated by America to varying extents.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • Drones have already become useful tools for police departments.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 21 Oct. 2026
  • Most business spending on AI is on OpenAI and Anthropic, according to data from corporate card issuer Ramp, though some corporate IT departments have integrated Google's Gemini models into their systems.
    — Jordan Novet, CNBC, 21 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • The current design conversation is reframing them as intentional styling tools, which should push manufacturers toward better fabrics, cleaner fits and broader color ranges.
    — Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, Sacbee.com, 23 Oct. 2026
  • To his point, expanding size ranges does involve investment in pattern-making, grading, sampling, production, and inventory planning.
    — Joe Bobowicz, Vogue, 19 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • That's the reason why a major trend in military spheres is to create counter-drone systems that are not only effective, but can be built cheaply and in vast numbers in a short time.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Soft jojoba spheres also provide a little physical exfoliation without the harsh scratchiness of traditional scrubs.
    — Christa Joanna Lee, Allure, 21 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • The researchers also explored more exotic scenarios involving additional spatial dimensions and theories that extend beyond Einstein’s general relativity.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 25 Oct. 2026
  • North Carolina State University But the new robot can maneuver in three dimensions using a few elastic limbs and just two actuators.
    — Maryna Holovnova, New Atlas, 25 Oct. 2026

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“Realms.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/realms. Accessed 27 Oct. 2026.

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