welfare state

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Recent Examples of welfare state Should the welfare state extend its embrace? Colton Valentine, New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2026 This trend has been coupled with a gradual shrinking of the welfare state. Miranda Sheild Johansson, Fortune, 22 Jan. 2026 And while its social-welfare state was dismantled and degraded, its corporate welfare state survived and thrived, helping create the unequal metropolis Mamdani is called upon to govern. Daniel Wortel-London, Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2026 Continue reading … OPINION KELLY LOEFFLER – Vast network of Somali nonprofits ripped off Minnesota’s welfare state. FOXNews.com, 30 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for welfare state
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Noun
  • Last week, the state legislature’s Joint Budget Committee proposed cutting funding to the Teacher Recruitment Education and Preparation, part of a host of cost-saving measures lawmakers are taking to address Colorado’s massive budget deficit.
    Elizabeth Hernandez, Denver Post, 6 Apr. 2026
  • Just last week, during the No Kings rally at the Boston Common, Campbell directly asked state residents to utilize the portal in order for her office to carry out prosecutions of federal agents.
    Tim Dunn, Boston Herald, 6 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • In total, the Trusteeship Council oversaw 11 trust territories.
    Lloyd Axworthy, Foreign Affairs, 15 May 2024
  • Somaliland became independent from Britain in 1960, a few days before Somalia, then a trust territory administered by Italy, gained its own sovereignty.
    Michael M. Phillips, WSJ, 1 Feb. 2022
Noun
  • For more than 60 years, pre-revolutionary Cuba endured independence without sovereignty as an American client state.
    Joseph J. Gonzalez, The Conversation, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Their client state of Syria is no more.
    New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 12 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Coordinator Luis Cortez says Brazil's program holds unique advantages unmatched by other nations.
    ABC News, ABC News, 31 Mar. 2026
  • Brilliant, strong, visionary, a far different approach to governing as that nation’s first woman leader.
    Kevin Powell, MSNBC Newsweek, 31 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Boone and Henderson counties are among the cheapest places to buy gas in the commonwealth.
    Marina Johnson, Louisville Courier Journal, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Hayes stressed in his statement to the Washington Examiner that taxes from skill games could raise significant revenue for the commonwealth and small business owners.
    Robert Schmad, The Washington Examiner, 22 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Hoboken is a dense urban settlement of sixty-five thousand wedged between the river to the east and the three-hundred-foot-tall Palisades to the west.
    Eric Klinenberg, New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2026
  • In just the first two months of 2026, there have already been 471 settlements and $114 million in attorney payouts.
    Tom Manzo, Oc Register, 6 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • The new framework removes these dependencies by learning from non-visual sensor data.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 3 Apr. 2026
  • Marijuana dependency linked to lung cancer in alarming new study findings.
    , FOXNews.com, 2 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • In the claim, Nancy Lemus' attorneys alleged that Eklund and Osborn failed to follow departmental and legal mandates for handling explosives.
    Matthew Rodriguez, CBS News, 2 Apr. 2026
  • This law, presented in the name of anti-discrimination, threatens to do exactly that against private religious institutions that do not comply with state mandates or rules that would conflict with a private religious institution’s beliefs and views.
    Stephen Mitchell, Baltimore Sun, 2 Apr. 2026

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“Welfare state.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/welfare%20state. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.

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