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Recent Examples of microstate
According to the 2025 Knight Frank Wealth Report, a cool $1 million will get you just 205 square feet of space in this glittering microstate on the French Riviera.
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Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 12 Mar. 2025
Surrounded by Italy on all sides, this microstate — the third smallest in Europe — has stubbornly clung to its independence over the centuries, even as revolutions and world wars swirled around it.
—Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 9 Oct. 2024
If summer is your season of choice, try to plan your visit for the last weekend of July, when a four-day medieval festival takes over the microstate with historical reenactments, crossbow and flag-throwing competitions, and plenty of food, drink, music, and of course, stuff to buy.
—Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 9 Oct. 2024
Only clergy members and administrative staff will live within the microstate, according to AFP.
—Abby Wilson, theweek, 30 Sep. 2024
By Abby Wilson published 30 September 2024 Albania's prime minister has revealed plans to establish a microstate for Sufi Muslims within the country's capital, Tirana.
—Abby Wilson, theweek, 30 Sep. 2024
According to the 2025 Knight Frank Wealth Report, a cool $1 million will get you just 205 square feet of space in this glittering microstate on the French Riviera.
—Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 12 Mar. 2025
In all three countries, local militants backed by Russian muscle declared their own microstates.
—Andrew Higgins, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2025
His survey includes time zones, the Eurovision Song Contest, cities, the territorial claims that sliced up Antarctica like a pie, maritime boundaries, and microstates, plus nations and empires throughout history.
—Pat Tompkins, AFAR Media, 13 Jan. 2025
Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 12 Mar. 2025
Surrounded by Italy on all sides, this microstate — the third smallest in Europe — has stubbornly clung to its independence over the centuries, even as revolutions and world wars swirled around it.
—Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 9 Oct. 2024
If summer is your season of choice, try to plan your visit for the last weekend of July, when a four-day medieval festival takes over the microstate with historical reenactments, crossbow and flag-throwing competitions, and plenty of food, drink, music, and of course, stuff to buy.
—Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 9 Oct. 2024
Only clergy members and administrative staff will live within the microstate, according to AFP.
—Abby Wilson, theweek, 30 Sep. 2024
By Abby Wilson published 30 September 2024 Albania's prime minister has revealed plans to establish a microstate for Sufi Muslims within the country's capital, Tirana.
—Abby Wilson, theweek, 30 Sep. 2024
According to the 2025 Knight Frank Wealth Report, a cool $1 million will get you just 205 square feet of space in this glittering microstate on the French Riviera.
—Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 12 Mar. 2025
In all three countries, local militants backed by Russian muscle declared their own microstates.
—Andrew Higgins, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2025
His survey includes time zones, the Eurovision Song Contest, cities, the territorial claims that sliced up Antarctica like a pie, maritime boundaries, and microstates, plus nations and empires throughout history.
—Pat Tompkins, AFAR Media, 13 Jan. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for microstate
Noun
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Let nation-states race to build narrow AIs for drug discovery, or drone warfare.—
Jason Hausenloy,
The Orlando Sentinel,
19 July 2025
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Across the world, cities are stepping into leadership roles once reserved for nation-states.—
John Eger,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 July 2025
Noun
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From the Cossack republics of the 17th century to the Maidan uprising of 2014, Ukraine has consistently supported freedom and pluralism.—
Andy J. Semotiuk,
Forbes.com,
15 July 2025
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Charges of legislative graft are as old as the republic itself.—
Kevin R. Kosar,
The Washington Examiner,
4 July 2025
Noun
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The $8-billion expansion plan is a testament to the commercial success of Marina Bay Sands, which contains a hotel, mall, convention center and one of only two licensed casinos in the southeast Asian city-state.—
Oscar Holland,
CNN Money,
16 July 2025
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San Diego has all the ingredients to become a city-state in function, if not in law.—
John Eger,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 July 2025
Noun
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At the end of Trump’s second term, perhaps the incoming president, whether a Republican or Democrat, might then be able to chip away at our subsidies and tariffs in coordination with the rest of world, find a path forward that works sufficiently well enough for all nations.—
Ken Roberts,
Forbes.com,
19 July 2025
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Soon after, eight third-country deportees said by the US to have criminal records landed in South Sudan, a nation on the cusp of civil war.—
Nimi Princewill,
CNN Money,
18 July 2025
Noun
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These children show difficulties across almost every domain: language, cognition, behavior.—
William A. Haseltine,
Forbes.com,
21 July 2025
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The implication was that some powerful figure, or perhaps a cabal of them, secretly killed Epstein to prevent damaging information about themselves from entering the public domain.—
Robert Schmad,
The Washington Examiner,
18 July 2025
Noun
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The issue wasn’t with FC Nordsjælland, which is also part of the Right to Dream empire and has sent several other players to SDFC.—
Mark Zeigler,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
19 July 2025
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His new Goods and Services Tax replaced a byzantine tax code that included oddities like the octroi, a city toll on goods originating in the Roman empire.—
Christiaan Hetzner,
Fortune,
18 July 2025
Noun
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Crime in the commonwealth is on the low side despite its size.—
Scott Cohn,
CNBC,
14 July 2025
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In Pennsylvania alone, more than 100 deaths have occurred at three dozen dams across the commonwealth, according to a study conducted by a team of researchers at Brigham Young University.—
Michele Haddon,
USA Today,
14 July 2025
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His ministate is hierarchical, patriarchal and militaristic, a utilitarian utopia rather than a revolutionary experiment.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
13 May 2021
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Karen insurgents, who had once controlled a ministate within Myanmar, lost most of their territory.—
Hannah Beech,
New York Times,
12 Oct. 2020
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“Microstate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/microstate. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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