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Recent Examples of client state
For more than 60 years, pre-revolutionary Cuba endured independence without sovereignty as an American client state.
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Joseph J. Gonzalez,
The Conversation,
23 Mar. 2026
Their client state of Syria is no more.
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New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
12 Jan. 2026
Above all, China fears that its unpredictable and often aggressive client state could spark a military conflict with South Korea and the United States, potentially dragging Beijing into a second Korean War.
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Shuxian Luo,
Foreign Affairs,
21 Aug. 2025
Greece was seen as bulwark against Moscow and its client states in southeastern Europe.
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Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
31 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for client state
Joseph J. Gonzalez,
The Conversation,
23 Mar. 2026
Their client state of Syria is no more.
—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
12 Jan. 2026
Above all, China fears that its unpredictable and often aggressive client state could spark a military conflict with South Korea and the United States, potentially dragging Beijing into a second Korean War.
—
Shuxian Luo,
Foreign Affairs,
21 Aug. 2025
Greece was seen as bulwark against Moscow and its client states in southeastern Europe.
—
Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
31 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for client state
Recent Examples of Synonyms for client state
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He is scheduled to return to court for a settlement conference Thursday.
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Unless the settlement fund is established and distributes payments, that scenario is unlikely.
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The separatist movement dates back to the early 1960s, when the British Southern Cameroons, a United Nations trust territory previously governed as part of Nigeria’s eastern region, was joined with Cameroon.
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They were reportedly convicted of violating local morality laws under an Islamic Sharia court in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province.
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Two of Canada’s 10 provinces, Alberta and Saskatchewan, are still selling American alcoholic beverages.
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The Education Department’s civil rights office had long been the last resort for parents who believe their child is facing discrimination at school, with a mandate to review all complaints.
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With James Dolan registering a mandate against going above the second apron, Knicks are not among the teams capable of giving Robinson a meaningful raise.
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Domestic recycling from secondary sources represents one pathway to reduce that dependency.
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For incident response agents, this means producing an investigation trail with relevant alerts, logs, metrics, deployment and infrastructure events, and dependencies.
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Divisions are part of the price of democracy, argued Lincoln author and University of Florida professor Allen Guelzo.
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The birthright citizenship ruling was a win for democracy — and a warning about erasing history, argues columnist Anita Chabria.
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Aim to give cucumber plants an inch of water each week from irrigation or rainfall, and water when the top few inches of soil feel dry.
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Water deeply in the morning, check soil moisture regularly, and move plants to shade during heat waves.
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His story stretches beyond sports, touching one of Haiti’s many mysteries of Haiti’s brutal Duvalier dictatorship and reflecting on the outsize role Haitians have long played in shaping American history.
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Virtually all contemporary dictatorships are cosplay democracies with term limits, elections, and legislatures—the few ruling, as Amos Perlmutter put it, in the name of the many.
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“Client state.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/client%20state. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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