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Recent Examples of provinces
Last year, Hurricane Melissa also swept Cuba’s five provinces, displacing more than 735,000 people while destroying homes and basic infrastructure.
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Philip Wang, Time, 9 Feb. 2026
The lighting on Friday will mark the conclusion of the Olympic flame’s journey, after 63 days across Italy passing through 60 cities and across 110 provinces.
—Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 6 Feb. 2026
The arrests come as the South Asian nation tries to strengthen its economy by boosting the number of tourists climbing and trekking in its mountainous provinces.
—Chas Newkey-Burden, TheWeek, 5 Feb. 2026
Chinese provinces reduce growth targets amid national downturn Several Chinese provinces scaled back their economic ambitions for 2026 amid a national downturn.
—Alexander Onukwue, semafor.com, 4 Feb. 2026
But the notion of turning Alberta into a landlocked statelet, where people would have to get a work permit to go and work in British Columbia or other provinces in Canada—Albertans are fundamentally patriotic.
—David Frum, The Atlantic, 4 Feb. 2026
Its provinces, including Albacete, form part of what is known as ’empty Spain’, given their inhabitants often move from the countryside to the big cities for work.
—Guillermo Rai, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2026
Many homes and buildings in Mozambique were completely submerged under water and dozens of hospitals and clinics were destroyed, while roads and bridges were swept away in the South African provinces of Limpopo and Mpumalanga and parts of Zimbabwe.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 29 Jan. 2026
In Cuba’s provinces the unfolding energy crisis is even more severe.
—Patrick Oppmann, CNN Money, 29 Jan. 2026
Philip Wang, Time, 9 Feb. 2026
The lighting on Friday will mark the conclusion of the Olympic flame’s journey, after 63 days across Italy passing through 60 cities and across 110 provinces.
—Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 6 Feb. 2026
The arrests come as the South Asian nation tries to strengthen its economy by boosting the number of tourists climbing and trekking in its mountainous provinces.
—Chas Newkey-Burden, TheWeek, 5 Feb. 2026
Chinese provinces reduce growth targets amid national downturn Several Chinese provinces scaled back their economic ambitions for 2026 amid a national downturn.
—Alexander Onukwue, semafor.com, 4 Feb. 2026
But the notion of turning Alberta into a landlocked statelet, where people would have to get a work permit to go and work in British Columbia or other provinces in Canada—Albertans are fundamentally patriotic.
—David Frum, The Atlantic, 4 Feb. 2026
Its provinces, including Albacete, form part of what is known as ’empty Spain’, given their inhabitants often move from the countryside to the big cities for work.
—Guillermo Rai, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2026
Many homes and buildings in Mozambique were completely submerged under water and dozens of hospitals and clinics were destroyed, while roads and bridges were swept away in the South African provinces of Limpopo and Mpumalanga and parts of Zimbabwe.
—Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 29 Jan. 2026
In Cuba’s provinces the unfolding energy crisis is even more severe.
—Patrick Oppmann, CNN Money, 29 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for provinces
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Since June, federal immigration raids have disrupted neighborhoods and communities across Los Angeles and around the nation, including at work sites, along neighborhood streets and in commercial areas.—
Melissa Gomez,
Los Angeles Times,
11 Feb. 2026
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Some religious communities bar menstruating women from common living areas, said Ahsan.—
Sana Noor Haq,
CNN Money,
11 Feb. 2026
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In Washington state, some of the most sweeping police reforms were passed in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, including requiring recruits in all departments across the state to get the same standard use of force training.—
Andy Rose,
CNN Money,
7 Feb. 2026
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Edwards, who trains such police departments as the New York Police Department on drone threat mitigation, points to fiber-optic drones that can evade radio frequency detection systems as a particular concern.—
Anna Schecter,
CBS News,
7 Feb. 2026
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The rivalry is also spilling into other realms, including the Super Bowl.—
Matt O’Brien,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Feb. 2026
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However, after people serve their time in the hells, they can be reborn in other realms.—
Megan Bryson,
The Conversation,
5 Feb. 2026
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According to Mentee, the platform adapts flexibly to diverse tasks in logistics, manufacturing, and other industrial domains.—
Chris Young,
Interesting Engineering,
9 Feb. 2026
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There isn’t a universal definition of kindergarten readiness, but many experts and educators rely on guidance from the bipartisan National Education Goals Panel’s five developmental domains critical to a child’s success upon entering grade school.—
Dallas Morning News,
Dallas Morning News,
7 Feb. 2026
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Discovering a site like this allows archaeologists to further understand the culture and society of early medieval England, when the country was fragmented into several kingdoms but rulers like Offa were beginning to unify it and Alfred the Great was fighting off Viking invaders.—
Issy Ronald,
CNN Money,
4 Feb. 2026
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The burial ground dates back to a significant time in English history, when regional kingdoms started to form and consolidate power.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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But the extent of Epstein’s connections to seemingly countless powerful individuals in numerous fields, including media, validates the feeling that some Epstein obsessives have shared.—
Max Tani,
semafor.com,
9 Feb. 2026
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But Gates’s agricultural holdings alone give him exposure to everything from corn and soy fields in the Midwest to potato operations in the Pacific Northwest, typically managed by professionals through his Cascade Investment vehicle.—
Sydney Lake,
Fortune,
8 Feb. 2026
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Finally, two Olympic torches were lit two Olympic cauldrons, in Milan and Cortina, their flames at the center of shape-shifting spheres.—
Robert Lloyd,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Feb. 2026
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Across six permanent galleries—which appear to float above the lobby in concrete spheres—are 1,500 artifacts spanning 300,000 years of human history.—
John Arlidge,
Travel + Leisure,
7 Feb. 2026
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Advertisement Forty-six of my 76 first dates involved getting drinks, 13 were walks, and 11 were coffee.—
Sonya Gurwitt,
Time,
13 Feb. 2026
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As contact dwindled to occasional phone calls and walks, Holloway interpreted the behavior as confirmation of Youngblood’s narrative.—
Matthew Bremner,
Rolling Stone,
11 Feb. 2026
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“Provinces.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/provinces. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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