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republic

[ri-puhb-lik] / rɪˈpʌb lɪk /


NOUN
nation
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This whole big shambolic miracle machine only keeps rolling because we are an amazing thing—a democratic republic.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

A 34-year-old resident of Sanandaj in western Iran said the intensity of the attacks had decreased and that in recent days he "realised the Islamic republic will not be overthrown in the way we imagined".

From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026

President since 2024 after an election held following the death of former president Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash, Pezeshkian is seen as belonging to the more moderate wing of politics in the Islamic republic.

From Barron's • Mar. 24, 2026

It served as a military training compound used by the US and Nato, but the facility was later abandoned by the Americans and converted by the Afghan republic government around 2016 into a rehabilitation centre.

From BBC • Mar. 17, 2026

He was living the great paradox of the early American republic: What was politically essential for the survival of the infant nation was ideologically at odds with what it claimed to stand for.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis