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Discover LudwigThe word "nation-state" is a correct and usable term in written English
You can use it to refer to a country or other political entity that is governed by its own set of laws and has a distinct national identity. For example, "The United States of America is a nation-state that is made up of 50 individual states."
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nation-state
noun
A political entity (a state) associated with a particular cultural entity (a nation) and a sovereign territorial unit.
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"They want to stop nation-state democracy".
The nation-state has been flattened.
Those are hallmarks of nation-state operations.
Vatican City is the world's smallest fully independent nation-state.
The nation-state alone offered sustainable freedom from imperial exploitation.
The ideal of the nation-state is never fully achieved.
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The rise of nation states produced national ruling classes.
The nation state had betrayed them.
Goodbye nation state.
America is a nation state.
Building a nation state is quite another.
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