sovereign
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Rumors of acquisition offers swirled: Saudi sovereign money?
From Slate • May 8, 2026
Industry players early in research and development are already gaining first-mover advantages, the firm wrote, while investments are ramping up and government policies are holding quantum as a sovereign priority.
From Barron's • May 5, 2026
Today the U.S. and the Vatican are, respectively, the greatest hard-power and the greatest soft-power sovereign entities.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026
While it is the King's first visit to Bermuda as sovereign, he previously came in 1970 for the opening of the island's parliament and toured territory in an open-top car.
From BBC • May 1, 2026
Hobbes’s point is not that expertise is whatever the sovereign says it is; it is that non-experts can be competent to select experts.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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