How to Use republic in a Sentence
republic
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That kind of tit-for-tat is the wrong way to run a republic.
—The Editorial Board, Orange County Register, 9 Feb. 2024
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The ways of the wolf predate the founding of this republic.
—Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey, Twin Cities, 28 July 2019
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In 2011, the new republic was formed, but peace didn’t hold.
—Sira Thierij, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Aug. 2023
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Our republic is of the people, by the people and for the people.
—Fox News Staff, Fox News, 20 Mar. 2021
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Many of these stretch back to the very beginning of the republic.
—Washington Post, 23 Nov. 2020
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The republic got through the Trump ordeal, but only by the skin of our teeth.
—Mark Medish, The New Republic, 30 Nov. 2022
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And that's been done since the earliest days of the republic.
—CBS News, 7 June 2020
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Do republics have to be as small as those of ancient Greece?
—Richard Brookhiser, National Review, 11 Dec. 2017
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The stakes for Trump and the republic can’t be overstated.
—Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 26 Jan. 2020
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Since when could a few kids get rid of the president of the republic?
—Alaa Al Aswany, Harper's Magazine, 22 June 2021
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That, not the prospect that Trump will face a few years behind bars, is a far greater threat to the republic.
—Matt Ford, The New Republic, 13 June 2023
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Who better to speak for the republic than the eastern black rail?
—Nathaniel Rich, The Atlantic, 15 Feb. 2022
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For the American republic, the last, best hope of man on Earth.
—John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 24 Dec. 2020
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Our republic has stood up to this test — thus far, at least.
—Star Tribune, 27 Jan. 2021
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Even under the republic, many Afghans didn’t get enough to eat.
—New York Times, 8 Aug. 2022
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Biden and others are not wrong that the republic is in peril.
—Matt Ford, The New Republic, 4 Nov. 2022
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The push to become a republic began more than two decades ago.
—The Associated. Press, Arkansas Online, 30 Nov. 2021
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The former Soviet republic is one of the most wired nations in the world.
—NBC News, 25 June 2019
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Bonaparte was both the first and last president of the republic.
—National Geographic, 7 Nov. 2016
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The republic that has seen the most war is also one of poorest republics in the Russia.
—Time, 23 Nov. 2022
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But it's been that way almost since the beginning of the republic.
—John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 13 June 2017
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This is not the way our republic is supposed to function.
—Fox News Staff, Fox News, 20 Mar. 2021
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But the profound threat that Vladimir Putin poses to our republic is one.
—Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 2 Nov. 2017
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The leadership doesn't act like the republic is on the line, or can't bring themselves to believe it.
—Ryan Cooper, The Week, 19 Nov. 2021
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That was the year the first television arrived to the island republic.
—Lee Daniel Kravetz, The Cut, 31 July 2017
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The seals washed up on the coast of Russia’s republic of Dagestan, along the Caspian Sea, the largest landlocked body of water in the world.
—Josh Pennington, CNN, 4 Dec. 2022
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Here, voters had a historic choice to make: Vote to save the republic, or squander it.
—Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 12 Nov. 2022
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Chokhkommuna is a small village that lies high up in the mountains in the center of the republic.
—Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2022
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His campaign was pausing its political ads, most of which target Trump as a danger to the republic.
—Susan Page, USA TODAY, 14 July 2024
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These are people and all of them in some way, shape or form protect our constitutional republic.
—Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 9 July 2024
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