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Noun
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During that conflict, their ancestral homes were nation-states.—
Ibrahim Al-Marashi,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
19 May 2026 -
In the West, nation-states produced an astonishing expansion of equality, democracy and material security.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 May 2026
Noun
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The service Service lands somewhere between polished business-hotel professionalism and genuine warmth.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
21 May 2026
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Hunting, gathering, and ceremonies connected to the Brunot lands are integral to Ute religious and cultural life, with the Ute people historically returning to familiar hunting and gathering areas year after year.—
Shaun Chapoose,
Denver Post,
20 May 2026
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Before the war, around 20% of the world's crude oil supply, from Persian Gulf nations, was typically carried through the strait by tanker to reach Asia and elsewhere.—
May 19,
CBS News,
19 May 2026
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Meanwhile, nations have already begun deploying OFPV systems on reservoirs, lakes, as well as offshore waters to avoid competing with agriculture or urban development.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
19 May 2026
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Additionally, a study of 39 participant groups in 15 countries showed that people experience the same rhythm differently depending on the culture in which they’ve been immersed.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 May 2026
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Of the 51 countries that have earned Blue Flag designations this year, only a few are in Asia.—
Lydia Mansel,
Travel + Leisure,
19 May 2026
Noun
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As children, Vi and Jinx lose their parents in an abortive revolution in Zaun, and years later find themselves on opposite sides of an unfolding power struggle between the two city-states.—
David Faris,
TheWeek,
22 May 2026
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With very few exceptions, an end was declared, not only to empires, but also to city-states, duchies, principalities, emirates, sultanates, caliphates, khanates, agencies, princely states, colonies, suzerains, dependencies, mandates, tributaries, condominia and protectorates.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 May 2026
Noun
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Absolute kingdoms of the '90s and early-2000s.—
Zach Dean OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
15 May 2026
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All kingdoms crumble, though, and after a decade-plus reign, the cupcake was left behind—an aging monarch overthrown by Dominique Ansel’s cronut, and the neophilic nature of social media feeds.—
Shilpa Uskokovic,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
28 Apr. 2026
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The same failure modes show up in many other domains.—
Gautam Mukunda,
Mercury News,
19 May 2026
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Last year, the Department of Defense awarded OpenAI a contract worth up to $200 million to develop prototype frontier AI capabilities for both warfighting and enterprise domains.—
Julia Boorstin,
CNBC,
19 May 2026
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The rest of the world comprised colonial possessions of the European states and Japan, a few large land empires, and many small principalities.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
18 May 2026
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Born in the Bronx in 1939, Lauren famously started by selling neckties out of a drawer in the Empire State Building before building one of the world’s most recognizable lifestyle empires.—
Brittany Talarico,
PEOPLE,
12 May 2026
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“Ministates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ministates. Accessed 24 May. 2026.
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