The phrase "almost state" is not standard in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in contexts where you want to describe a condition that is nearly a state but not quite there, though it is better to clarify the intended meaning.
Example: "The project is in an almost state of completion, but a few final touches are still needed."
Alternatives: "nearly complete" or "in a transitional phase".
The US is afflicted with "third world police", which has led to "almost state-sanctioned" killings of people from minority groups, one of the country's leading black writers has said.
"What people like me find alarming is there is almost state-sanctioned violence in America, particularly with the police," said the Jamaica-born novelist, who has lived in the US for more than two decades.
But they are breaking rocks, ostensibly to help build a major eight-lane highway that will link new and planned industrial zones -- with almost state-of-the-art electronics assembly plants -- to customers and investors in capitalist markets around the world, particularly the country's archenemy, South Korea.
Trinklein's book is not an exhaustive account: each almost-state is afforded only about three hundred words and accompanied by period-appropriate maps that imagine what our fair country would have looked like had they been admitted to the union.
The Turks spend a lot of time bombing the Kurds in this de facto almost-state, even though both are ostensibly fighting against the Islamic State.
The remaining seven exemptions were distributed differentially in almost every state or very few states, thus offering no discrimination potential.
Roe invalidated the abortion laws of almost every state in the nation.
They are models for almost every state coalition in the nation.
That's hundreds of thousands of Americans have held vigils in almost every state, attended national rallies and raised their voices against Keystone XL in almost every state.
(Almost every state has had cases).
