commonwealth
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He supported a 2020 bill, which became law, that limits judges’ ability to block the commonwealth attorney’s decision to drop a charge.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026
They want to keep and improve the island’s current status as a commonwealth.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025
EDT Saturday in the commonwealth of bourbon and horse racing.
From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2025
Before the statement was released, the leaders' conclave – where commonwealth prime ministers and presidents meet without advisers – went on for about six hours.
From BBC • Oct. 26, 2024
His childhood was full of them; his very body was an empty hall echoing with sonorous defeated names; he was not a being, an entity, he was a commonwealth.
From "Absalom, Absalom!" by William Faulkner
Vocabulary lists containing commonwealth
Julius Caesar
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