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polity

[pol-i-tee] / ˈpɒl ɪ ti /


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Sports, at its finest, can act as a cultural common denominator for our ever-fractious and divided polity.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2026

The American polity long ago decided to take that worry less seriously than the founders did.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 15, 2025

"I think taking into account the circumstances and the compulsions of a coalition polity, I have done as best as I could do under the circumstances."

From BBC • Dec. 27, 2024

The essay’s endurance is born out of the way Washington transformed his farewell into a reminder of civility, dignity, humility, and polity.

From Slate • Jul. 22, 2024

This Ptolemaic Egypt is an exquisite corpse, a dead polity that is somehow still ambulatory, only waiting for a stake to be put through its heart by the legions of Augustus.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro




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