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as in state
a body of people composed of one or more nationalities usually with its own territory and government
the American people became one nation when they adopted the Constitution in 1789
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The mobility of capital insured an inexorable race to the bottom for labor and the environment; vulnerable nations have been left to absorb the costly externalities.
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Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
Carmen Aristegui, the prominent Mexican journalist and news anchor whose fame may insulate her to some degree from risk, provides a coda to the film, addressing the stakes for a democratic nation where reporters routinely face mortal danger.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 21 Oct. 2024
The name for the group of leading emerging economies comes from its original member nations — Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — and its mission is to act as a counterweight to the West and Western institutions like the G7.
—Andrew Torgan, CNN, 20 Oct. 2024
Some of the more in-depth survey courses back then even posited that these walls of protection were proximate causes of the whole collapse of trade leading to a clueless President Herbert Hoover’s inability to avert the worst downtown in our nation’s history.
—Jim Cramer, CNBC, 20 Oct. 2024
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Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2024
Carmen Aristegui, the prominent Mexican journalist and news anchor whose fame may insulate her to some degree from risk, provides a coda to the film, addressing the stakes for a democratic nation where reporters routinely face mortal danger.
—Matthew Carey, Deadline, 21 Oct. 2024
The name for the group of leading emerging economies comes from its original member nations — Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — and its mission is to act as a counterweight to the West and Western institutions like the G7.
—Andrew Torgan, CNN, 20 Oct. 2024
Some of the more in-depth survey courses back then even posited that these walls of protection were proximate causes of the whole collapse of trade leading to a clueless President Herbert Hoover’s inability to avert the worst downtown in our nation’s history.
—Jim Cramer, CNBC, 20 Oct. 2024
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“Nation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nation. Accessed 4 Nov. 2024.
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