city-state
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The city-state topped IQAir's live ranking of the world's most polluted major cities again early Friday, with Jakarta second and Kuala Lumpur fifth.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
Meanwhile, competition in the local taxi market shows no signs of easing, with Alphabet’s Waymo set to launch driverless ridehailing services in the city-state from 2028, the analyst adds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
Officials for the city-state said an initial data leak occurred between 7 and 12 August.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
The head of the CDU in the northern city-state of Bremen, Heiko Strohmann, told Merz in a recent party meeting that he "was running a political party, not a business".
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
‘Once I stood here at the corner of Zeus’s temple, venerated by all! I oversaw the games of Olympia. Offerings from every city-state were piled at my feet!’
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
Patri Friedman, a software engineer and grandson of economist Milton Friedman, first tried building floating city-states, and then launched a fund to seed “startup cities.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026
The region's city-states -- Ur, Uruk, and Lagash among them -- developed complex political and religious systems that became the blueprint for later societies.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2025
“Antigone” was performed during an uneasy respite from war with other Greek city-states.
From Salon ● Feb. 25, 2024
And the theater was used to help keep the coalition of city-states that made up ancient Greece from tearing one another apart for two centuries.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 21, 2023
Kaan's strategy was to surround Mutal and its subordinate city-states with a ring of enemies.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
Vocabulary lists containing city-state
Ancient Greece - Introductory
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Human Geography - Middle School
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Human Geography - High School
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