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Recent Examples of welfare state
Should the welfare state extend its embrace?
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Colton Valentine, New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2026
This trend has been coupled with a gradual shrinking of the welfare state.
—Miranda Sheild Johansson, Fortune, 22 Jan. 2026
And while its social-welfare state was dismantled and degraded, its corporate welfare state survived and thrived, helping create the unequal metropolis Mamdani is called upon to govern.
—Daniel Wortel-London, Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2026
Continue reading … OPINION KELLY LOEFFLER – Vast network of Somali nonprofits ripped off Minnesota’s welfare state.
—FOXNews.com, 30 Dec. 2025
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Colton Valentine, New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2026
This trend has been coupled with a gradual shrinking of the welfare state.
—Miranda Sheild Johansson, Fortune, 22 Jan. 2026
And while its social-welfare state was dismantled and degraded, its corporate welfare state survived and thrived, helping create the unequal metropolis Mamdani is called upon to govern.
—Daniel Wortel-London, Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2026
Continue reading … OPINION KELLY LOEFFLER – Vast network of Somali nonprofits ripped off Minnesota’s welfare state.
—FOXNews.com, 30 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for welfare state
Noun
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Currently, 38 states offer dedicated tax incentives for data centers, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.—
Kevin Hardy,
Baltimore Sun,
20 Apr. 2026
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The county last week also had asked the state to investigate, echoing calls from Supervisor Sylvia Arenas and Steve Baron, a member of the county’s Child Abuse Prevention Council.—
Julia Prodis Sulek,
Mercury News,
20 Apr. 2026
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In total, the Trusteeship Council oversaw 11 trust territories.—
Lloyd Axworthy,
Foreign Affairs,
15 May 2024
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Somaliland became independent from Britain in 1960, a few days before Somalia, then a trust territory administered by Italy, gained its own sovereignty.—
Michael M. Phillips,
WSJ,
1 Feb. 2022
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For more than 60 years, pre-revolutionary Cuba endured independence without sovereignty as an American client state.—
Joseph J. Gonzalez,
The Conversation,
23 Mar. 2026
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Their client state of Syria is no more.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
12 Jan. 2026
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Starting now, work with other nations on a collective-action problem.—
Charles Yu,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
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Although in 2015, nearly 200 nations signed the Paris Agreement to curb emissions and limit global warming, progress still falls short of climate targets.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
20 Apr. 2026
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Dhillon has already begun gearing up to bring a lawsuit against the commonwealth.—
Amy DeLaura,
The Washington Examiner,
12 Apr. 2026
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Beshear said last month that order helped the commonwealth make significant and important progress in the fight against addiction.—
Alex Acquisto,
CNN Money,
9 Apr. 2026
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Jackson’s settlement with the Chandler family turned out to include an agreement that forbade the estate to participate in depictions of the events around Chandler’s allegation.—
Kelefa Sanneh,
New Yorker,
20 Apr. 2026
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In March, Live Nation and Ticketmaster also reached a settlement with federal authorities that included putting a cap on service fees, which will have a slight effect on prices.—
Alli Rosenbloom,
CNN Money,
19 Apr. 2026
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There are more third-party dependencies than anyone can count.—
Stephen Clark,
ArsTechnica,
17 Apr. 2026
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The case has rightly focused attention on how chatbots apparently reinforce delusions and foster emotional dependency.—
Marc Augustin,
STAT,
16 Apr. 2026
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Apple has never had a consistent annual film mandate, nor a film release cadence.—
Matt Donnelly,
Variety,
16 Apr. 2026
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Not into general revenues, but into industry-specific statutory trusts with clear mandates, independent governance and mandatory sunset review.—
Nicolas S. Rohatyn,
Mercury News,
16 Apr. 2026
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“Welfare state.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/welfare%20state. Accessed 23 Apr. 2026.
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