polity
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The Anglo-Scottish union of 1707 created the new polity of Great Britain and set it on course to become a globally dominant power.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026
Sports, at its finest, can act as a cultural common denominator for our ever-fractious and divided polity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2026
"I think taking into account the circumstances and the compulsions of a coalition polity, I have done as best as I could do under the circumstances."
From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2024
The essay’s endurance is born out of the way Washington transformed his farewell into a reminder of civility, dignity, humility, and polity.
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2024
Five times or more bigger than any other Mississippian polity, Cahokia’s population of at least fifteen thousand made it comparable in size to London, but on a landmass without Paris, Cordoba, or Rome.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
“By the time the Scramble for Africa was over,” Martin Meredith tells us, the vagaries of geopolitical geometry had amalgamated “some 10,000 African polities . . . into forty European colonies and protectorates.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 17, 2026
Washington, having spurned a crown himself, recognized the siren song that could bewitch even ostensibly democratic leaders, particularly in polities where checks on power are easily subverted.
From Slate ● Feb. 17, 2025
From the nature of our highly diverse pre-contact society of small, autonomous polities to the destructive forces of successive colonial regimes, California Indians’ distinct history is often incompatible with federal acknowledgment criteria.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2024
In these half-historical soap operas, the heroes are decisive, brave, glorious, but the polities they lead are fragile, teetering, menaced by outsiders.
From New York Times ● May 25, 2023
The French and the American revolutions both saw more or less tyrannical polities overtaken—at least on paper—by forms of representative democracy.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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