commonwealth
Example Sentences
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At its 1886 height, the Knights claimed nearly one million members, seeking a cooperative commonwealth transcending the wage system.
“Few partnerships,” Kentucky’s current governor, Andy Beshear, said at Collins’s funeral, “can claim more widespread or impactful results for our commonwealth or our people.”
"Firstly, I would like to apologise to Canada for wearing it," he said in a CTV interview while in the commonwealth this week for Remembrance events.
From BBC
She will be the first woman in the commonwealth’s history to hold the role.
From Salon
The commonwealth is home to hundreds of thousands of federal employees, many of whom faced job losses or furloughs during the recent government shutdown.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
