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As a whole, the US is currently 11th worldwide and fifth among developed nations for Covid-19 deaths.

From Vox

The region’s nations have all had their eyes on the prize since the discovery of gas there a few years ago.

From Ozy

Their decisions will almost inevitably make the nation more divided, with those worst off relegated to a nightmare future in which they are left to fend for themselves.

As a nation, we became inured to a national death toll that has only recently dropped below a thousand people a day.

A downtown federal jail now has one of the steepest numbers of active cases in any federal prison facility in the nation.

Congress is now 92 percent Christian, resembling more to a papal enclave than our religiously diverse nation.

If Congress accurately reflected our nation on the basis of race, about 63 percent would be white, not 80 percent.

They carved a refuge out of the wilderness and then, in 200 years, built it into the most powerful nation on earth.

The television networks interrupt their broadcasts to take the nation directly to Selma.

And besides, as a nation, we hold this truth to be self-evident:  resolutions are made to be broken.

My son,” said Grabantak one evening to Chingatok, “if we are henceforth to live in peace, why not unite and become one nation?

He could not tell what I meant by secrets of state, where an enemy or some rival nation were not in the case.

For the first time in his experience the Corsican had to meet the forces of a nation and not of a government.

Gourges fitted out three vessels and 150 soldiers at his own expense to revenge their death, and repair the honor of his nation.

He made a violent assault against the nation of his enemies, and in the descent he destroyed the adversaries.

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On this page you'll find 41 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to nation, such as: community, democracy, people, population, public, and society.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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