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Recent Examples of ministate
His ministate is hierarchical, patriarchal and militaristic, a utilitarian utopia rather than a revolutionary experiment.
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New York Times, 13 May 2021
Karen insurgents, who had once controlled a ministate within Myanmar, lost most of their territory.
—Hannah Beech, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2020
Islamic State also tried to establish a ministate of its own in the Indonesian regency of Poso, on Sulawesi island, in 2015.
—Yaroslav Trofimov, WSJ, 7 June 2018
These are central Africa’s ministates — overlapping and unrecognized fiefdoms in a Texas-size country riven by disorder, situated in one of the world’s worst neighborhoods.
—Jack Losh, Washington Post, 26 Mar. 2018
The Mali cases have their roots in 2012, when armed rebels and homegrown Islamic jihadists set up a ministate in Northern Mali around Timbuktu that lasted about a year.
—Marlise Simons, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2018
Within this unwieldy land, rebel groups may well possess tools for military enforcement and economic extraction, but their ministates remain combustible and profoundly limited, lacking reliable public utilities and transparent justice systems.
—Jack Losh, Washington Post, 26 Mar. 2018
The Aida refugee camp is a warren of alleys, a scene of frequent clashes between Palestinian youth and Israeli soldiers — and a welfare ministate.
—William Booth, Washington Post, 19 May 2017
That country also has a long-disadvantaged Kurdish minority, which exploited the chaos to carve out its own de facto ministate.
—Max Fisher, New York Times, 29 June 2016
New York Times, 13 May 2021
Karen insurgents, who had once controlled a ministate within Myanmar, lost most of their territory.
—Hannah Beech, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2020
Islamic State also tried to establish a ministate of its own in the Indonesian regency of Poso, on Sulawesi island, in 2015.
—Yaroslav Trofimov, WSJ, 7 June 2018
These are central Africa’s ministates — overlapping and unrecognized fiefdoms in a Texas-size country riven by disorder, situated in one of the world’s worst neighborhoods.
—Jack Losh, Washington Post, 26 Mar. 2018
The Mali cases have their roots in 2012, when armed rebels and homegrown Islamic jihadists set up a ministate in Northern Mali around Timbuktu that lasted about a year.
—Marlise Simons, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2018
Within this unwieldy land, rebel groups may well possess tools for military enforcement and economic extraction, but their ministates remain combustible and profoundly limited, lacking reliable public utilities and transparent justice systems.
—Jack Losh, Washington Post, 26 Mar. 2018
The Aida refugee camp is a warren of alleys, a scene of frequent clashes between Palestinian youth and Israeli soldiers — and a welfare ministate.
—William Booth, Washington Post, 19 May 2017
That country also has a long-disadvantaged Kurdish minority, which exploited the chaos to carve out its own de facto ministate.
—Max Fisher, New York Times, 29 June 2016
Recent Examples of Synonyms for ministate
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The big picture: Telcos have long been a target for nation-state spies looking for coveted state secrets.Sam Sabin, Axios, 6 Dec. 2024
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This isn't the first time the Trump campaign has been the target of a hack by nation-state actors.Mark R. Weaver, Newsweek, 4 Dec. 2024
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Barring a successful appeal, the decision ensures Murdoch's media empire will be left equally to his four oldest children, who are not all ideologically aligned with the conservative views of Rupert and Lachlan.Sara Fischer, Axios, 9 Dec. 2024
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For the Romans, who added Egypt to the empire after Cleopatra’s suicide, the queen was the exotic seducer of both Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony.Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 6 Dec. 2024
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That year was in the middle of the Interregnum, a period when Britain was a republic without a king.Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Nov. 2024
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There are various plots to overthrow the emperors and either wrest control and put the empire in the hands of a single man or return Rome to its days as a republic.Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 20 Nov. 2024
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The diesel-engine workhorse was designed for flat-pack transportation to developing nations and relatively quick assembly on site before getting to work.Paul Ridden, New Atlas, 9 Dec. 2024
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During his first term, Trump’s travel restrictions affected several Muslim-majority nations, Iran and Iraq among them.Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2024
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In 2023, travelers spent a total of $9.7 billion across the commonwealth and that didn't slow down in 2024.Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 15 Dec. 2024
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The commonwealth’s attorney for Prince William County, Manassas and Manassas Park, Amy Ashworth, has said her office won’t comment on this case until it’s done.Steve Almasy, CNN, 3 Dec. 2024
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With the kingdom heavily reliant on migrant labor to build its World Cup infrastructure, international rights organizations are warning that the lessons from Qatar's 2022 World Cup have not been learned.Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 12 Dec. 2024
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All seems well as Helm convenes a meeting of Rohan’s great houses meant to map out a plan for the kingdom’s future.Charles Pulliam-Moore, The Verge, 11 Dec. 2024
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This currently includes 23 EU member states, six non-EU countries, and three European microstates, covering a total of 32 countries and territories.Marley Malenfant, Austin American-Statesman, 17 Sep. 2024
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Chechnya, ruled by the current president, Ramzan Kadyrov, as a kind of microstate according to his own interpretations of sharia and Chechen tradition, offers the most extreme example of this arrangement.Joshua Yaffa, Foreign Affairs, 1 July 2012
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Singapore Singapore is home to one of the world’s top airports, thriving shopping malls for every budget, one of the best food scenes in the world, and an excellent public transit system that makes everything in this city-state easy to access.Meena Thiruvengadam, Contributor, CNBC, 30 Nov. 2024
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In the movie, Macrinus buys Lucius (Paul Mescal), who was brought to Rome from a conquered city-state, not realizing that Lucius is the illegitimate grandson of the great Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius.Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 22 Nov. 2024
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“Ministate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ministate. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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