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a region of activity, knowledge, or influence
a legal question outside the doctor's province
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Recent Examples of provinces
Two of Canada’s 10 provinces, Alberta and Saskatchewan, are still selling American alcoholic beverages.
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Lizzie Kane,
Sacbee.com,
3 July 2026
The bus went out of control and fell into the ravine in Dana Sar, a remote area near the border of Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces, Shahid Rind, a spokesperson for the Balochistan government, said.
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ABC News,
3 July 2026
Since its launch, the company has diversified into logistics, fuel delivery, and transport, including hauling containers from Cuban ports to different provinces.
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Rick Jervis,
USA Today,
1 July 2026
Demonstrators also gathered Tuesday in parts of Durban with reports of more protesters in parts of the North West and Free State provinces.
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Michelle Gumede,
Los Angeles Times,
30 June 2026
Treatment centers in the eastern provinces were burned to the ground.
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Tyler Evans,
Sun Sentinel,
28 June 2026
Sampling the air using sediments from the seabed The Toarcian warming event is one of a dozen or so periods of climate change in the geological past that were triggered by enormous volcanic phenomena known as large igneous provinces.
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Howard Lee,
ArsTechnica,
26 June 2026
In March, Wang Xiaoping, China’s human resources and social security minister, said the government was exploring effective ways to expand areas such as social insurance coverage for 25 million workers across 17 provinces.
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Glenn Taylor,
Footwear News,
24 June 2026
Various European countries and Canadian provinces used the Covid crisis to accelerate massive digital identity infrastructures.
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Rachel Marsden,
Hartford Courant,
21 June 2026
Lizzie Kane,
Sacbee.com,
3 July 2026
The bus went out of control and fell into the ravine in Dana Sar, a remote area near the border of Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces, Shahid Rind, a spokesperson for the Balochistan government, said.
—
ABC News,
3 July 2026
Since its launch, the company has diversified into logistics, fuel delivery, and transport, including hauling containers from Cuban ports to different provinces.
—
Rick Jervis,
USA Today,
1 July 2026
Demonstrators also gathered Tuesday in parts of Durban with reports of more protesters in parts of the North West and Free State provinces.
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Michelle Gumede,
Los Angeles Times,
30 June 2026
Treatment centers in the eastern provinces were burned to the ground.
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Tyler Evans,
Sun Sentinel,
28 June 2026
Sampling the air using sediments from the seabed The Toarcian warming event is one of a dozen or so periods of climate change in the geological past that were triggered by enormous volcanic phenomena known as large igneous provinces.
—
Howard Lee,
ArsTechnica,
26 June 2026
In March, Wang Xiaoping, China’s human resources and social security minister, said the government was exploring effective ways to expand areas such as social insurance coverage for 25 million workers across 17 provinces.
—
Glenn Taylor,
Footwear News,
24 June 2026
Various European countries and Canadian provinces used the Covid crisis to accelerate massive digital identity infrastructures.
—
Rachel Marsden,
Hartford Courant,
21 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for provinces
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Daniela DaSuta, founder of SommSpace in Austin, recommends looking for wines labeled Alto Adige, Collio, Collio Goriziano or Friuli Colli Orientali, all benchmark areas for the variety.
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The city presented three scenarios for Hemphill, which would involve either no change to the current traffic flow, adding two lanes of traffic back in certain areas, or adding them back along the entire corridor.
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Supporters hail the move as bringing accountability and coherence — through the governor — to all the departments and agencies involved in education.
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Cody Hess, an associate government program analyst for the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration, said these differences in departments’ needs for in-person meetings make a sweeping return-to-office order unnecessary.
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What if Baahubali dies and has to go through the 14 realms of the afterlife in Indian mythology?
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The new wrinkle is that the big platforms want to draft off what makes top creators successful in their digital-native realms.
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Instead of concentrating combat capability aboard a small number of heavily armed warships, the government says the new vessels will support a hybrid fleet in which crewed ships coordinate networks of autonomous systems across multiple domains.
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Across eight domains of preparedness, respondents gave their highest scores to Community.
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Even though the monarchy no longer exists in Rwanda, so revered are the cows that the traditional gifting and exchanging them among kingdoms has been embraced by Kagame.
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In the fifth century CE, the western half of the Roman Empire disintegrated into a patchwork of new kingdoms and new rulers.
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His companies have redrawn the boundaries of multiple economic fields—the automotive industry, the aerospace sector, satellite communications—and his direct influence has helped transform the world’s most powerful government.
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The magnetic pull for those whose ultimate prize is privacy and connection to nature is towards gardens, forests, fields and beachfronts that stretch into the distance, delineating possibilities.
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Butter yellow French tips cut away to reveal sheer spheres of apricot jam.
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Stephen worked at Weber Brothers Metal Works at the time, welding half spheres together to make buoys.
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In just his seventh career start, Bennett (3-3) struck out six with no walks while dominating the last-place Angels until the their two-run eighth.
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The waistband is made with stretchy material that doesn't dig into your skin, even during long walks or workouts.
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“Provinces.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/provinces. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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