nationhood
noun
na·tion·hood
ˈnā-shən-ˌhu̇d 
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the early days of U.S. nationhood
The colonists showed a strong desire for nationhood.
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One of the billionaire V.C.’s favorite books was 1997’s The Sovereign Individual, which encourages elites to unburden themselves from nationhood through foreign citizenship.
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Alison Boleyn, Robb Report, 26 July 2025
Democracy and nationhood depend on the capacity of individuals to assess the world for themselves and take unexpected risks; their destruction depends on asserting grand falsehoods that are known to be such.
—Timothy Snyder, Foreign Affairs, 6 Sep. 2022
Beyond that, the artists of the Baghdad Group–and the country at large–was dealing with abrupt and dramatic transitions from rule by the Ottomans, then the British, and then nationhood, with heavy British influence.
—Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025
So too did Muslim political leaders, such as the Ottoman Sultan Abdulhamid II, the Palestinian Haj Amin al-Husseini, King Faisal of Saudi Arabia, and Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini of Iran, all of whom grounded their political projects in the idea of Muslim nationhood.
—Anver M. Emon, Foreign Affairs, 2 June 2017
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Alison Boleyn, Robb Report, 26 July 2025
Democracy and nationhood depend on the capacity of individuals to assess the world for themselves and take unexpected risks; their destruction depends on asserting grand falsehoods that are known to be such.
—Timothy Snyder, Foreign Affairs, 6 Sep. 2022
Beyond that, the artists of the Baghdad Group–and the country at large–was dealing with abrupt and dramatic transitions from rule by the Ottomans, then the British, and then nationhood, with heavy British influence.
—Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025
So too did Muslim political leaders, such as the Ottoman Sultan Abdulhamid II, the Palestinian Haj Amin al-Husseini, King Faisal of Saudi Arabia, and Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini of Iran, all of whom grounded their political projects in the idea of Muslim nationhood.
—Anver M. Emon, Foreign Affairs, 2 June 2017
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“Nationhood.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nationhood. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.
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