How to Use canton in a Sentence
canton
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Results were still pending from many of Switzerland’s 26 cantons.
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Jamey Keaten,
Los Angeles Times,
15 June 2026
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Results were still pending from many of Switzerland's 26 cantons.
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CBS News,
14 June 2026
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All meals are made on board and include regional and seasonal ingredients; the wine is also from the cantons of Valais and Graubünden.
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Lydia Mansel,
Travel + Leisure,
18 Dec. 2025
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In Switzerland, richer cantons pay into a system known as fiscal equalization that redistributes the money to less wealthy regions.
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Laura Millan,
Bloomberg,
28 May 2025
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Applicants who gain admission are distributed to cantons throughout the country, where they are expected to complete workforce- and language-integration programs.
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Jessi Jezewska Stevens,
New Yorker,
8 June 2026
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It’s levied annually by individual cantons on all residents, at rates reaching up to about 1% of net worth, after deductions and exclusions for certain categories of assets.
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Business Columnist,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Jan. 2026
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German is the most prevalent, but French is the default in the west of the country, Italian in the south (nearest to the borders of those countries), while Romansh is more obscure and pops up in a couple of cantons (states, or counties) towards the east.
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Nick Miller,
New York Times,
2 June 2026
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Then came revolts and revolutions in Ireland, the Swiss cantons, the Rhineland, the Netherlands, the Italian states, and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
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Daniel Immerwahr,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
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With support from Federal Office of Culture, Zurcher Filmstiftung, German Federal Film Board, Suissimage and the cantons of Aargau and Lucerne.
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Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
12 Aug. 2025
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