- plural of nation.
nations
Example Sentences
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Its lawsuit therefore takes a position not merely on local environmental harms, but on how responsibility for an international problem should be allocated among American companies, foreign companies and foreign nations.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
A majority of nations have called for ambitious, legally binding measures to curb production of plastic, which is expected to triple by 2060.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
Education is devolved in the UK, so while Milburn's review looks at the picture in all four nations, his recommendations regarding education are specific to England.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
That’s one of their major clients, because if you feed starving nations, people like the United States better.
From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2026
On his first voyage in 1492, Columbus started a colony of about forty men on the island he called Hispaniola, which is currently divided into the nations of Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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