Sample Sentences for
republic
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republic as in:  the country is a republic

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    The constitution protects the rights of minorities in our republic.
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    The United States is more accurately described as a republic than as a democracy.
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    But this republic idea sounds like an improvement over our current government.  (source)
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    The constitutional monarchy had been abolished, replaced by a republic,  (source)
    republic = a government controlled by elected representatives
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    At Emory he went so far as to co-found a College Republican Club.  (source)
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    Attempting to break the silence, the lad remarked on the upcoming conference to unify the Soviet republics—a reasonable gambit given her apparent intensity.†  (source)
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    The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened), against domestic Violence.†  (source)
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    Has republicanism finally triumphed?†  (source)
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    In April, Animal Farm was proclaimed a Republic, and it became necessary to elect a President.  (source)
    Republic = a country with a system of government in which a majority of citizens elect representatives to make laws
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    Of course it does, but I don't think it matters if a Republican or a Democrat gave the order.  (source)
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    Party General Secretary and President of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Andre Narmonov shifted his gaze to Padorin.†  (source)
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    The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.†  (source)
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    The French Revolution in the late 1700s wasn't just an uprising of common people overthrowing the monarchy in favor of democracy and republicanism.†  (source)
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meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus

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    Would you like, some day, Montag, to read Plato's Republic?  (source)
    Republic = an influential work in philosophy regarding political theory
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    I am Plato's Republic.  (source)
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