Thesaurus results for PROVINCES

provinces

noun

plural of province

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a region of activity, knowledge, or influence a legal question outside the doctor's province

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Recent Examples of provinces Amata Corporation, founded in 1989, built industrial parks across Thailand’s Rayong and Chon Buri provinces. — Angelica Ang, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2026 Its signal reaches up to ninety-five per cent of the province, which is the size of Minnesota, along with parts of two neighboring provinces. — Jordan Salama, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026 Omar Smith of the National Civil Protection Service said that damage was concentrated in the central provinces of Veraguas, Herrera and Los Santos. — Aris Mariota, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2026 Panamanian authorities reported extensive damage to buildings, roads and public infrastructure across several provinces, along with power outages, disruptions to water supplies and dozens of aftershocks. — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 9 Oct. 2026 Authorities have issued bear-hunting permits across eight provinces and are seeking to procure tranquilizer dart guns to support rangers in rural areas. — CBS News, 8 Oct. 2026 Rather, it was based on joint research by eight major trade union federations examining the actual living expenses of 422 workers from 28 factories in Phnom Penh, Kandal and Kampong Speu provinces. — Jasmin Malik Chua, Footwear News, 8 Oct. 2026 While cases have slowed in Ituri province, the epicenter, the outbreak is spreading in emerging hot spots in North Kivu and South Kivu provinces. — Arkansas Online, 7 Oct. 2026 North Kivu’s case fatality rate of 58% is the highest among Congo’s seven affected provinces. — ABC News, 7 Oct. 2026

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Noun

Cult members lived in makeshift homes of polythene sheeting and thatch that Mackenzie divided into areas with biblical names like Jerusalem and Judea.

— Jefferson Kahinju Reuters, Arkansas Online, 20 Oct. 2026
The bar for engaging in major conflicts outside the core strategic areas of Europe and East Asia should be quite high.

— Charles Kupchan, Foreign Affairs, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of areas

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Only 27% of Americans view both the State and Justice departments positively, and while Republicansâ€™ approval of those departments has held relatively steady, itâ€™s also below 50%.

— Morgan Chalfant, semafor.com, 15 Oct. 2026
Getting different departments to work together is another challenge.

— Inzamam Rashid, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of departments

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These bog bodies tell stories of a time when humans were sacrificed to the gods in bogs, as otherworldly margins between the human and divine realms, or when social outcasts met a cruel, violent end for failing to conform to societal standards.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2026
Dante populated his realms of Hell and Purgatory with figures, monsters and moral frameworks borrowed directly from classical Greek and Roman myths.

— Ed Meza, Variety, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of realms

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These technologies could support radicalization, recruitment and fundraising while helping groups conduct complex attacks across multiple domains.

— Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2026
The contest of networks will be nearly global, waged in multiple domains, with huge stakes riding on the outcome.

— Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Foreign Affairs, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of domains

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Gomelsky told investigators there was no reason Wang would need the victim’s research notes because their fields of study at the university were unrelated, the affidavit said.

— Eduardo Cuevas, CNN Money, 17 Oct. 2026
The schedule also introduces Banana Ball 360, a Notre Dame Stadium event with games alternating between two fields.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of fields

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In this procedure, uranium-containing material is formed into tiny spheres by dipping them into a hot silicone-oil bath.

— Muskan Bhatia, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2026
Wagyu beef and lamb koobideh are formed into bite-size, plump spheres doused in a sweet tomato and sumac glaze.

— Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of spheres

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In the bottom of the third, Yamamoto gave up a leadoff single and issued two walks before Yelich came up to the plate with two outs and drove a curveball into center field for two runs.

— Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026
Howell’s early Blackheath, London, workroom and her walks along the Suffolk coast.

— Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 12 Oct. 2026

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