sovereign
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Plus, they were fellow petrostates, their destinies tied to the vast pools of oil beneath their sovereign lands.
From Barron's • May 7, 2026
Like Norway, Australia is rich in natural resources, but its sovereign wealth fund only had A$267bn as of December 2025 - less than 10% of Norway's for a population five times as big.
From BBC • May 6, 2026
Today the U.S. and the Vatican are, respectively, the greatest hard-power and the greatest soft-power sovereign entities.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026
The first, passed in March, was an unusual measure giving the state the right to automatically appeal any decision holding that it didn’t enjoy sovereign immunity from suit.
From Slate • May 4, 2026
The homelands were, ostensibly, the original homes of South Africa’s tribes, sovereign and semi-sovereign “nations” where black people would be “free.”
From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah
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