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nation state en · NOUN
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative spelling of nation-state.
But times have changed, and mother / Standing at the garden gate / Calls us home for dinner / With the nation state
2018, Momus, “Rootless Cosmopolitans”, in Pantaloon:It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]:[…]; […] or perhaps to muse on the irrelevance of the borders that separate nation states and keep people from understanding their shared environment.
2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:
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