How to Use nation-state in a Sentence

nation-state

noun

• Even for a Greek city-state — so different in scale from today’s nation-states — the very end of the realm seemed to contain its origins.
  — Kanishk Tharoor, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2023
• But Cozy Bear has actually been one of the most active nation-state groups since at least 2010.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 26 Jan. 2024
• The example does not have to be a nation-state for this argument to work; the key thing is the competition.
  — Eliot Bush, Scientific American, 7 Nov. 2023
• But in a world of nation-state attackers and the kind of content being secured, the risk—at some point—will become real.
  — Zak Doffman, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
• In one instance, the trio assisted in stopping a nation-state hacking group.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 23 May 2023
• The governments of some nation-states are therefore confronted with a choice.
  — Sharon Lemac-Vincere, WIRED, 29 June 2024
• What was once mostly the realm of nation-state actors or large groups can now be accomplished with turnkey, off-the-shelf software available for purchase on the dark web.
  — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 July 2024
• APTs are typically very crafty and sponsored by a nation-state.
  — Catherine Stupp, WSJ, 3 Aug. 2023
• This is an excellent tool for nation-state actors and criminals alike who will be on a bonanza in the short term.
  — Davey Winder, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023
• In 1948 the most devout of the Jewish surveyors in the Promised Land regarded the mere suggestion of a nation-state as blasphemy.
  — Jordan Castro, Harper's Magazine, 9 Jan. 2024
• Hamas is, at best, a hybrid — a militant group that governs a territory that is not a nation-state.
  — Marc Fisher, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2023
• Iran, not Russia, is proving to be the biggest nation-state threat to the U.S. presidential election in November.
  — Sam Sabin, Axios, 16 Aug. 2024
• Vatican City Vatican City is around 0.17 square miles and the smallest fully independent nation-state in the world.
  — Ashlyn Messier, Fox News, 1 Oct. 2024
• Those involved in discussions around sovereignty, or the right of a nation-state to govern itself, spoke to NBC News to underscore that the issue has undeniable context to the fires.
  — Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 24 Aug. 2023
• His elevation to the senior role, experts say, shows how small the pool of skilled nation-state hackers is likely to be and demonstrates Serebriakov’s value to Russia.
  — Matt Burgess, WIRED, 18 Mar. 2023
• Most nation-states are deeply concerned with questions about ethnic coherence.
  — Jp Brammer, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2023
• And then there’s the issue of whether other actors — either nation-states or militant groups — might now attempt something similar in the future.
  — Joshua Keating, Vox, 18 Sep. 2024
• On rare but horrific occasions, that enemy was capable of projecting force on the scale of a nation-state.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 27 Jan. 2024
• SolarWinds was a hack that was carried out by the Russian nation-state actor Nobelium, Microsoft said in 2021.
  — Luke Barr, ABC News, 12 July 2023
• Before the German nation-state even existed, Friedrich was a hard-core nationalist.
  — Zachary Fine, The New Yorker, 28 June 2024
• Finally, in November of 1947 the United Nations voted to create two nation-states, recognizing that more than one people have claim to the same land.
  — Scott Meltzer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Aug. 2023
• In the past, Christianity was the source of common identity across Europe, even amongst its burgeoning and often warring nation-states.
  — Jared Marcel Pollen, The New Republic, 12 July 2023
• There are age-old customs, social mores and privations, as well as conflict with nation-state ideology.
  — The Week Uk, theweek, 19 July 2024
• Meeting the challenge, not only with respect to the Southern border but meeting the challenge of the cyber threat from cyber criminals and adverse foreign nation-states.
  — Julia Johnson, Washington Examiner, 15 May 2023
• Two years on, and while the Sultan of Slowjamastan has instigated more than a few bizarre laws (he’s outlawed the wearing of Crocs, for example), the Republic also has all the trappings of a fledgling nation-state.
  — Richard Collett, CNN, 8 June 2023
• There is no doubt that some humans, societies, institutions and nation-states have driven far more change than others, and that the benefits and costs of change have been and are unevenly distributed.
  — Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Apr. 2024
• Both nation-states and private companies, which are underregulated and now own most of the satellites in orbit, are gearing up to compete for resources and research sites.
  — Patrick Lin, Professor Of Philosophy, Discover Magazine, 6 July 2024
• While some officials maintain that the operation was complex and could have been carried out only by a nation-state, others cite the shallow depth of the pipelines to point to the possibility of non-state actors.
  — Niha Masih, Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2023
• Yet, for Bitcoin to become a global world reserve currency, there will have to be a bending of political will- still, Bitcoin only plays in some places regarding nation-states.
  — Roger Huang, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
• Cyberattacks are growing in frequency and sophistication, with ransomware, phishing and nation-state hacking becoming more prevalent.
  — Thomas Caldwell, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024