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Advertisement What the hostage crisis was really like The city of Indianapolis came to a standstill as Kiritsis marched Hall, who wasn’t wearing a coat, down four blocks in near zero-degree temperatures to the Indiana statehouse.
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Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 9 Jan. 2026
Pro-regime figures continue to run the security forces, government ministries, statehouses and most city halls around the country.
—John Otis, NPR, 8 Jan. 2026
The 2025 elections reshaped the balance of power inside several statehouses, delivering tangible gains beyond individual races.
—Samantha-Jo Roth, The Washington Examiner, 1 Jan. 2026
Video from the event, which has taken place outside the statehouse since 2016, showed the 17-foot-long potato dropping from a crane as usual.
—Nicole Blanchard, Idaho Statesman, 1 Jan. 2026
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Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 9 Jan. 2026
Pro-regime figures continue to run the security forces, government ministries, statehouses and most city halls around the country.
—John Otis, NPR, 8 Jan. 2026
The 2025 elections reshaped the balance of power inside several statehouses, delivering tangible gains beyond individual races.
—Samantha-Jo Roth, The Washington Examiner, 1 Jan. 2026
Video from the event, which has taken place outside the statehouse since 2016, showed the 17-foot-long potato dropping from a crane as usual.
—Nicole Blanchard, Idaho Statesman, 1 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for statehouse
capitol
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For example, the year prior, in July 2018, hundreds of Puerto Ricans placed pairs of shoes in front of Puerto Rico’s capitol building to protest the Puerto Rican government’s claim at the time that only sixty-four people had died from Hurricane María.—
Julyssa Lopez,
Rolling Stone,
26 Jan. 2026
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About 40 state capitols now require security screenings with metal detectors, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.—
Jack O'Connor,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Jan. 2026
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“Statehouse.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/statehouse. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.
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