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province

[prov-ins] / ˈprɒv ɪns /


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Syria's state news agency said he was detained in Hama province.

From BBC • Apr. 24, 2026

Now China wants the island province to work harder.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 24, 2026

"It is a pandemic for us," said 30-year-old mother Sharon Mbonani, who was forced to separate from her one-year-old son and send him to another province after doctors linked his respiratory problems to environmental factors.

From Barron's • Apr. 22, 2026

Adam Saqib, 19, from Roseville — a city 400 miles from Los Angeles in North California — whose parents emigrated from the Punjab province of Pakistan, grew up without Punjabi culture in the U.S..

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 21, 2026

No less an authority than Oliver Cromwell is said to have remarked that there would have been no Irish rebellion ‘if there had been an Earl of Cork in every province’.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin




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