- plural of country.
countries
Example Sentences
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“Spain has been very bad, but you know, Italy has been good, and almost all of the countries have been good. They just had a bad moment. They didn’t help us.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 8, 2026
An estimated two-thirds of the children adopted in Singapore every year were born elsewhere, usually in neighbouring countries.
From BBC • Jul. 8, 2026
They’ll import them, initially from China and later from other countries in Asia.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 8, 2026
While one might think renewed hostilities — plus Trump’s push for European countries to spend more on defense — would boost defense stocks, Wall Street wasn’t seeing it that way.
From MarketWatch • Jul. 8, 2026
We could tell you the capitals of countries nobody had ever heard of, and their principal exports.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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