provinces

noun

plural of province
as in areas
a region of activity, knowledge, or influence a legal question outside the doctor's province

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Recent Examples of provinces Treatment centers in the eastern provinces were burned to the ground. — Tyler Evans, Sun Sentinel, 28 June 2026 Demonstrators also gathered Tuesday in parts of Durban with reports of more protesters in parts of the North West and Free State provinces. — Michelle Gumede, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2026 Since its launch, the company has diversified into logistics, fuel delivery, and transport, including hauling containers from Cuban ports to different provinces. — Rick Jervis, USA Today, 1 July 2026 Sampling the air using sediments from the seabed The Toarcian warming event is one of a dozen or so periods of climate change in the geological past that were triggered by enormous volcanic phenomena known as large igneous provinces. — Howard Lee, ArsTechnica, 26 June 2026 Two of Canada’s 10 provinces, Alberta and Saskatchewan, are still selling American alcoholic beverages. — Lizzie Kane, Sacbee.com, 3 July 2026 The bus went out of control and fell into the ravine in Dana Sar, a remote area near the border of Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces, Shahid Rind, a spokesperson for the Balochistan government, said. — ABC News, 3 July 2026 Various European countries and Canadian provinces used the Covid crisis to accelerate massive digital identity infrastructures. — Rachel Marsden, Hartford Courant, 21 June 2026 In March, Wang Xiaoping, China’s human resources and social security minister, said the government was exploring effective ways to expand areas such as social insurance coverage for 25 million workers across 17 provinces. — Glenn Taylor, Footwear News, 24 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for provinces
  1. areas
  2. departments
  3. realms
  4. domains
  5. kingdoms
  6. fields
  7. spheres
  8. walks
Noun
  • Steer clear of puddles - Driving into puddles or low areas of rainwater can cause vehicles to hydroplane or skid out of control.
    — NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 7 July 2026
  • Avoid puddles - Driving into puddles or low rainwater areas can lead to vehicles hydroplaning or losing control.
    — STAR-TELEGRAM WEATHER BOT, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 July 2026
Definition of areas
Noun
  • Supporters hail the move as bringing accountability and coherence — through the governor — to all the departments and agencies involved in education.
    — Howard Blume, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026
  • Cody Hess, an associate government program analyst for the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration, said these differences in departments’ needs for in-person meetings make a sweeping return-to-office order unnecessary.
    — Sofia Williams, Sacbee.com, 1 July 2026
Definition of departments
Noun
  • What if Baahubali dies and has to go through the 14 realms of the afterlife in Indian mythology?
    — Rafael Motamayor, IndieWire, 30 June 2026
  • The new wrinkle is that the big platforms want to draft off what makes top creators successful in their digital-native realms.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 27 June 2026
Definition of realms
Noun
  • Instead of concentrating combat capability aboard a small number of heavily armed warships, the government says the new vessels will support a hybrid fleet in which crewed ships coordinate networks of autonomous systems across multiple domains.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 30 June 2026
  • Across eight domains of preparedness, respondents gave their highest scores to Community.
    — Joseph Coughlin, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
Definition of domains
Noun
  • Even though the monarchy no longer exists in Rwanda, so revered are the cows that the traditional gifting and exchanging them among kingdoms has been embraced by Kagame.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 27 June 2026
  • In the fifth century CE, the western half of the Roman Empire disintegrated into a patchwork of new kingdoms and new rulers.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 25 June 2026
Definition of kingdoms
Noun
  • His companies have redrawn the boundaries of multiple economic fields—the automotive industry, the aerospace sector, satellite communications—and his direct influence has helped transform the world’s most powerful government.
    — Mark O’Connell, The New York Review of Books, 4 July 2026
  • The magnetic pull for those whose ultimate prize is privacy and connection to nature is towards gardens, forests, fields and beachfronts that stretch into the distance, delineating possibilities.
    — Nielsen Dinwoodie, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026
Definition of fields
Noun
  • More than 160 years earlier, Galileo's telescopic observations had revealed mountains, valleys, and craters on the lunar surface, overturning the ancient notion that heavenly bodies were perfect spheres.
    — Stefanie Waldek, Space.com, 2 July 2026
  • Tradition of separation The idea of separate spheres of spiritual and secular functions and authority was advanced by religious and secular thinkers to benefit both religion and the state.
    — Steven K. Green, The Conversation, 2 July 2026
Definition of spheres
Noun
  • In just his seventh career start, Bennett (3-3) struck out six with no walks while dominating the last-place Angels until the their two-run eighth.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 4 July 2026
  • The waistband is made with stretchy material that doesn't dig into your skin, even during long walks or workouts.
    — Nicol Natale, PEOPLE, 3 July 2026
Definition of walks

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