Many activists fear that the government's new surveillance laws will turn the country into a prison state.

The simulation compared thousands of possible world states to determine which scenarios were most likely.

Investigative journalists uncovered evidence that state capture had shaped several recent regulatory decisions to benefit a private conglomerate.

At the symposium, a paper argued that the emphatic state seen in Aramaic and Old South Arabian functioned not merely as emphasis but as a morphological signal of an agglutinated determiner, a feature some scholars reconstruct for Proto‑Semitic.

When he bragged about his road trip, he jokingly referred to his destination as Garbage State, and everyone who grew up there groaned.

The engineers updated the state diagram to reflect the new error-handling paths.

Many analysts still consider Ohio a bellwether state in presidential elections.

After confessing and sincerely repenting, she believed she had returned to a state of grace.

When comparing haplotypes from different populations, several loci were found to be identical by state, suggesting convergent mutations.

The server saves the world state every five minutes to prevent progress loss during crashes.