domains

noun

plural of domain
as in areas
a region of activity, knowledge, or influence a museum director who is one of the most powerful figures in the art domain

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Recent Examples of domains Federal officials say the domains were hard-coded into the malware and used for essential functions, including communication and authentication. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 28 Aug. 2026 StartCP provides one dashboard for websites, domains, email accounts, and databases. — Stackcommerce Team, PC Magazine, 28 Aug. 2026 The 120 misconfigured files the researchers found contained 227 commands to install non-existent packages or view unclaimed domains. — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 27 Aug. 2026 The inaugural edition took place in India, and selected a crop of businesses focusing on India’s priority health domains like oncology, chronic disease management and preventive care. — Angelica Ang, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2026 Credibility doesn’t transfer across domains, and the willingness to operate outside one’s expertise is itself a credibility signal worth heeding. — Big Think, 21 Aug. 2026 Across domains such as cognition, cardiorespiratory fitness, and muscular strength, that window can end well before a person becomes unhealthy or unable to work. — Julian Hayes Ii, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2026 Algorithms have indeed been found to disadvantage Black people in hiring, healthcare, policing, lending, housing and other domains. — Shaun Harper, AJC.com, 18 Aug. 2026 The companies will combine their expertise in space, cyber defense, cryptology, and secure communications to address rapidly evolving threats across military domains. — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 16 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for domains
  1. areas
  2. realms
  3. departments
  4. spheres
  5. fields
  6. kingdoms
  7. walks
  8. specialties
Noun
  • The rain could could produce flash flooding, especially in low-lying and urban areas.
    — Doyle Rice, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2026
  • The pharmaceutical giant is investing in other disease areas to expand and diversify its drug pipeline beyond obesity and diabetes.
    — Kevin Breuninger,Jeff Cox, CNBC, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of areas
Noun
  • Quiñones, an artist known as @skullsqwat and stylist to It-girl supreme and rock-star newlywed Gabbriette (known to her as Gabi), dwells in many realms.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2026
  • Yet Parton’s willingness to move among musical genres and other realms of entertainment, and to try just about anything, was part of her genius.
    — Jim Harrington, Mercury News, 25 Aug. 2026
Definition of realms
Noun
  • State employee telework California lawmakers passed Assembly Bill 1729, which could encourage state agencies and departments to encourage telework and create a centralized dashboard to track related efficiency metrics.
    — Sofia Williams, Sacbee.com, 2 Sep. 2026
  • The claim was made by Ryan Paganetti, who previously worked in the analytics departments for the Raiders, Jags and Eagles.
    — Zach Dean OutKick, FOXNews.com, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of departments
Noun
  • In 1966, during the 33rd Venice Biennale, Kusama staged Narcissus Garden without an official invitation, installing 1,500 reflective silver spheres on a lawn outside the exhibition grounds.
    — Tessa Solomon for ARTnews, Robb Report, 28 Aug. 2026
  • This separating of spheres feels particularly crucial given the embarrassment surrounding NFTs that still lingers among many art professionals.
    — Shanti Escalante-De Mattei, ARTnews.com, 17 Aug. 2026
Definition of spheres
Noun
  • Twelve other experts from a cross section of relevant fields including public health, pulmonology, and critical care joined this group to think together about how to galvanize new solutions.
    — Katia Riddle, NPR, 29 Aug. 2026
  • Save for the close second Renegade ran to Golden Tempo in the Belmont, the Belmont winner hasn’t been tested by the fields, which is to say, by traffic, as Renegade has.
    — Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2026
Definition of fields
Noun
  • The honeypot sites of royal Rajasthan—spliced by the brown slopes of the Aravalli Range, the state emerged after Partition from a mosaic of 22 feudal kingdoms—are so many people’s taster to India.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 1 Sep. 2026
  • The empire did not expand further and eventually fragmented into smaller kingdoms.
    — Tamanna Nangia, Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of kingdoms
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  • Then came the bottom of the ninth, which produced five more walks … two more singles … four more runs … a 10-9 game … and then this 102 mph rocket to right.
    — Jayson Stark, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Cardinals reliever George Soriano loaded the bases with a leadoff walk to Hernández and consecutive two-out walks to pinch-hitter Max Muncy and Kyle Tucker in the eighth before pinch-hitter Dalton Rushing went down swinging.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of walks
Noun
  • This limited Missourians’ awareness of their much larger suite of specialties, which included workers’ comp, family law, and personal injury.
    — Jason Phillips, USA Today, 1 Sep. 2026
  • Lamboglia has preserved some Sicilian specialties, like the panelle, though Buffa’s tripe in tomato sauce is long gone (as is the spleen sandwich).
    — Rachel Corbett, Curbed, 31 Aug. 2026
Definition of specialties

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“Domains.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/domains. Accessed 6 Sep. 2026.

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