welfare states

plural of welfare state

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for welfare states
Noun
  • The other report described four cases of tetanus in children in four different states — Idaho, Minnesota, Missouri and Wisconsin — all occurring in 2024.
    Faye Chiu, CNN Money, 23 June 2026
  • Indiana, Missouri, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin rank among the states with the most jackpot-winning tickets.
    Fernando Cervantes Jr, USA Today, 23 June 2026
Noun
  • Some of the new settlements approved recently are retroactive legalizations of tiny outposts, while others are neighborhoods of existing settlements.
    Melanie Lidman, Chicago Tribune, 19 June 2026
  • The same law firm previously represented families in two other skydiving crashes that occurred in Missouri that resulted in multimillion-dollar settlements.
    Ben Wheeler, Kansas City Star, 18 June 2026
Noun
  • The tight market, combined with tin's scarcity and supply concentration in high-risk nations such as China and Indonesia, has elevated its status as a critical metal.
    Tim Treadgold, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
  • The group stage of this expanded 48-team tournament had threatened to lack a little jeopardy, because eight nations across 12 groups have the safety net of a third-place finish.
    Adam Crafton, New York Times, 23 June 2026
Noun
  • At Cosmedica, the price is built to remove the small logistics that make a foreign trip stressful, and most of the planning happens before a patient lands.
    Malana VanTyler, Miami Herald, 24 June 2026
  • European colonizers in lands that became the United States did link church and state.
    Peter C. Mancall, The Conversation, 24 June 2026
Noun
  • Price is where almost every search starts, and the difference between countries is hard to ignore.
    Malana VanTyler, Miami Herald, 24 June 2026
  • The beverage’s roots go back to 1565, when the Manila-Acapulco galleon trade route began between Mexico and the Philippines, permanently altering both countries’ culinary trajectories.
    Daniel Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2026
Noun
  • Various European countries and Canadian provinces used the Covid crisis to accelerate massive digital identity infrastructures.
    Rachel Marsden, Hartford Courant, 21 June 2026
  • Cuba has 168 municipalities across its 15 provinces.
    ABC News, ABC News, 18 June 2026
Noun
  • True adoption spreads organically, not through top-down mandates.
    Julie Averill, Forbes.com, 20 June 2026
  • During a hearing in Victorian Coroners Court in December 2025, attorney Rachel Ellyard said Stacey had lost trust in the healthcare system following COVID-19 vaccine mandates, according to 9News.
    Samantha Stutsman, PEOPLE, 18 June 2026
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“Welfare states.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/welfare%20states. Accessed 27 Jun. 2026.

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