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as in areas
a region of activity, knowledge, or influence
medieval history is really Professor Clinton's realm, so I'll let her answer your question
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as in confines
an area over which activity, capacity, or influence extends
a medical breakthrough that is within the realm of possibility
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Recent Examples of realms
What if Baahubali dies and has to go through the 14 realms of the afterlife in Indian mythology?
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Rafael Motamayor,
IndieWire,
30 June 2026
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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Cynthia Littleton,
Variety,
27 June 2026
Davis, who most recently served as the chief creative officer at Sony Music, shaped many genres but was most influential in the rock and R&B realms.
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Marina Watts,
Entertainment Weekly,
22 June 2026
The campus includes a towering museum that covers the political and personal realms of the nation’s first Black president and first lady, while public spaces include a branch of the Chicago Public Library, a playground and athletic center, basketball courts and a picnic area with grills.
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Claire Savage,
Fortune,
20 June 2026
The campus includes a towering museum that covers the political and personal realms of the nation’s first Black president and first lady, while public spaces include a branch of the Chicago Public Library, a playground and athletic center, basketball courts and a picnic area with grills.
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ABC News,
19 June 2026
The campus includes a towering museum that covers the political and personal realms of the nation’s first Black president and first lady, while public spaces include a branch of the Chicago Public Library, a playground and athletic center, basketball courts and a picnic area with grills.
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Lauryn Overhultz,
FOXNews.com,
18 June 2026
In the fall the realms of American football and basketball meet as the Colts and the Pacers respectively kick off and tip off their seasons.
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Kat Chen,
Condé Nast Traveler,
16 June 2026
Her Taurus moon also occupies her 12th house, an area of the birth chart associated with spirituality, secrecy and subconscious realms.
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Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
15 June 2026
Rafael Motamayor,
IndieWire,
30 June 2026
The new wrinkle is that the big platforms want to draft off what makes top creators successful in their digital-native realms.
—
Cynthia Littleton,
Variety,
27 June 2026
Davis, who most recently served as the chief creative officer at Sony Music, shaped many genres but was most influential in the rock and R&B realms.
—
Marina Watts,
Entertainment Weekly,
22 June 2026
The campus includes a towering museum that covers the political and personal realms of the nation’s first Black president and first lady, while public spaces include a branch of the Chicago Public Library, a playground and athletic center, basketball courts and a picnic area with grills.
—
Claire Savage,
Fortune,
20 June 2026
The campus includes a towering museum that covers the political and personal realms of the nation’s first Black president and first lady, while public spaces include a branch of the Chicago Public Library, a playground and athletic center, basketball courts and a picnic area with grills.
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ABC News,
19 June 2026
The campus includes a towering museum that covers the political and personal realms of the nation’s first Black president and first lady, while public spaces include a branch of the Chicago Public Library, a playground and athletic center, basketball courts and a picnic area with grills.
—
Lauryn Overhultz,
FOXNews.com,
18 June 2026
In the fall the realms of American football and basketball meet as the Colts and the Pacers respectively kick off and tip off their seasons.
—
Kat Chen,
Condé Nast Traveler,
16 June 2026
Her Taurus moon also occupies her 12th house, an area of the birth chart associated with spirituality, secrecy and subconscious realms.
—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
15 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for realms
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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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Avian scopes are typically below 20, and so are the scopes for fishes.
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Permissions are increasingly derived at runtime from natural-language intent in ways that OAuth scopes were never designed to govern.
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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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Among the concert recordings are three full concerts being released for the very first time and several more full recordings of shows that have been excerpted, to varying extents, for past releases.
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Hunt, Avantika, and Angus are especially good as overgrown kids trying, to varying extents, to hide their softness beneath ambition.
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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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Shah adds that many women feel their best when ferritin levels are at least between 40 and 70 ng/ml for optimal energy and hair health, even if lab ranges suggest lower levels are ‘normal’.
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No other existing or planned telescope can observe through multiple ranges of the electromagnetic spectrum simultaneously on such short notice.
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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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Definitely include the piece's dimensions in your listing, Kristin Keyes, the founder of Kristin Keyes Interiors, says.
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All of these dimensions are thought to be as small as physically possible — close to the Planck scale (10-35 meters) — but the researchers proposed that the dark dimension could be significantly bigger than the others — on the order of a micron (10-6 meters).
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“Realms.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/realms. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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