realms

Definition of realmsnext
plural of realm

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Recent Examples of realms In March, China settled on the term ciyuan as the official translation for tokens, a move suggesting Beijing is looking to shape the rules of the AI economy and expand its efforts to counter the US dollar’s dominance in global commerce to digital realms. Tasneem Nashrulla, semafor.com, 19 May 2026 That hyper-local, hyper-personal sense of trust and the village green is becoming an important bulwark against the erosion of values in other realms. Diane Brady, Fortune, 19 May 2026 Internationally, however, the film’s distribution prospects rest largely on Cotillard, also burdened with the heaviest dramatic lifting to do as the stricken, unworldly protagonist who bridges the film’s two improbably connected realms. Guy Lodge, Variety, 18 May 2026 In Ancient Greek cosmology, Chaos could represent the primeval universe that existed before anything else, or the deepest realms of Tartarus, the underworld. Literary Hub, 18 May 2026 Since the seventies, the famed Nuyorican Poets Café has blossomed on the Lower East Side as an essential hothouse for arts movements of many stripes, perhaps most crucially as a launching pad for an emergent literati straddling the realms of soul and hip-hop. Sheldon Pearce, New Yorker, 15 May 2026 In the first Mortal Kombat film, Outworld sorcerer Shang Tsung (Chin Han) seeks to eliminate Earth's champions ahead of the ultimate tournament between realms. Nigel Smith, PEOPLE, 6 May 2026 There was some interesting stuff in my mom’s boyfriend’s closet, but no gateways to other realms. Mac Barnett, Longreads, 5 May 2026 Going higher — into the complex realms of trisqueezing and quadsqueezing — has long been dismissed as an experimental pipe dream. Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 1 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for realms
Noun
  • Pool areas also feature reef-safe sunscreen dispensers.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 May 2026
  • Student enrollment will drop across the board, and certain areas of the country such as New England—which is home to a whole host of small private colleges and will be suffering from some of the harshest demographic decline—may start to be dotted by campus ghost towns.
    Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 19 May 2026
Noun
  • The same failure modes show up in many other domains.
    Gautam Mukunda, Mercury News, 19 May 2026
  • 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
Noun
  • During their recent visit, the three docents set up scopes to zoom in on the nest.
    Erika I. Ritchie, Oc Register, 8 May 2026
  • The Orion Nebula, a showpiece easily visible in small scopes or binoculars below Orion’s Belt, is a bright eyepiece-filling gem.
    Jamie Carter, Space.com, 28 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The platform is used by major international law firms and global corporate departments.
    AllBusiness, Forbes.com, 16 May 2026
  • Private retailers also do not have the same public disclosure requirements as police departments.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 16 May 2026
Noun
  • But outfielders Jakob Marsee and Owen Caissie and catcher Agustin Ramirez have struggled to various extents.
    Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 2 May 2026
  • Meanwhile, cannabis has been legalized to varying extents in many states.
    Lucy Xiaolu Wang, The Conversation, 13 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Other miniature titanium forms—including dolphins, sharks and ladybugs—appear inside transparent spheres embedded throughout the sculptures.
    Anthony DeMarco, Forbes.com, 17 May 2026
  • The advent of digital media outlets is transforming the way communication is being conducted in all spheres of life, including science communication.
    Prodromos Yannas, Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 May 2026
Noun
  • Companies can reduce that risk by giving managers clearer guidance on pay ranges, internal equity and escalation processes.
    Caroline Castrillon, Forbes.com, 17 May 2026
  • The ethics rules do not require disclosure of specific amounts, but ranges of securities purchased.
    Ted Johnson, Deadline, 15 May 2026
Noun
  • 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
  • Let’s run through the whole sordid inventory of critters who have had unusual encounters with Kennedy—including denizens of several different animal kingdoms.
    Erin Vanderhoof, Vanity Fair, 16 Apr. 2026

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“Realms.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/realms. Accessed 20 May. 2026.

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