Word Finder - state

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A condition; a set of circumstances applying at any given time.

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High social standing or circumstance.

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A polity.

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(stochastic processes) An element of the range of the random variables that define a random process.

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(grammar) The lexical aspect (aktionsart) of verbs or predicates that do not change over time.

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To declare to be a fact.

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He stated that he was willing to help.

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To make known.

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State your intentions.

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Stately.

Oh, what a terrible state he is in!

The state picked her up this morning.

She came tearing upstairs a few minutes ago in a state of great excitement.

For three weeks the old prince lay stricken by paralysis in the new house Prince Andrew had built at Bogucharovo, ever in the same state, getting neither better nor worse.

She cowered into her hiding place, trying to breathe softly in spite of her state of panic.

This is the state of much of humanity.

Prices too that day indicated the state of affairs.

It's an out of state plate!

It costs me less in every sense to incur the penalty of disobedience to the State than it would to obey.

My medication contributed to my comfort if not my state of mind.

Why do they not dissolve it themselves--the union between themselves and the State--and refuse to pay their quota into its treasury?

Just at the time Prince Andrew was living unoccupied at Drissa, Shishkov, the Secretary of State and one of the chief representatives of this party, wrote a letter to the Emperor which Arakcheev and Balashev agreed to sign.

In the past, when the power of the state was absolute in many parts of the world, it was harder to argue that every person on the planet had rights no monarch or state could violate.

However, once we got going, I'm proud to state my future wife responded robustly, both physically and vocally.

Quinn's electronic equipment was updated to state of the art.

At last they were allowed to go before him and state their business.

If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood.

To such the State renders comparatively small service, and a slight tax is wont to appear exorbitant, particularly if they are obliged to earn it by special labor with their hands.

It's difficult attaining this state but it is unbelievably clear once accomplished.

Do you know what a dissociative fugue state is?

I saw that the State was half-witted, that it was timid as a lone woman with her silver spoons, and that it did not know its friends from its foes, and I lost all my remaining respect for it, and pitied it.

Problem is, it's a big state.

As for adopting the ways which the State has provided for remedying the evil, I know not of such ways.

Looking at their boots he several times shook his head sadly, pointing them out to the Austrian general with an expression which seemed to say that he was not blaming anyone, but could not help noticing what a bad state of things it was.

The Keene State College sounds cool too.

I can't tote supposition to the state authorities—I'd be laughed out of Denver.

If this had been a pre-Katie battle, he.d have wiped out the state.

My relative definition of poverty is "the state of being unable to reliably purchase a bundle of goods that allow one to participate in the economic norms of one's society."

Some years ago, the State met me in behalf of the Church, and commanded me to pay a certain sum toward the support of a clergyman whose preaching my father attended, but never I myself.

Rostov dismounted, gave his horse to the orderly, and followed Alpatych to the house, questioning him as to the state of affairs.

Timing was with her and she was able to take all the state exams shortly after graduating.

We alerted the state police down there and now that the FBI is excited, there are a lot more eyes looking for him.

The description of that vehicle is plastered at every toll booth, state police barracks and wire service from here to California and back.

At the expense of sounding immodest, I must say I am one of those who can attain this state.

More tears came as she realized she couldn't do anything for herself let alone Jonny if they kept her in such a state.

He expected these days to be his last, but he'd give the order to decimate the entire state if it meant humanity as a whole survived.

They released Patsy and the state took her daughter to try reuniting them.

A number of cars carried out of state license plates.

My baby stirred within me today and were I not so bundled in winter garb the few times when I venture out, surely all the wagging tongues in town would know of my maternal state.

No sound disturbed Howie and with Martha able to use her special hypnotic-like tone, little time was wasted inducing Howie's sleep state.

If this Vermont attempted abduction is his work, he re-entered the United States in that state.

No, but Vermont is a small state so everything is relatively close.

I passed out again but gradually, the pain in my left side and my throat brought me to a state of half-wakefulness.

Most everyone has been evac'd by the state.

Jule was beginning to think death was better than his weakened state.

Legally, in the state's eyes, we're not even a party to the proceedings.

So will you, trying to mush through the state's bureaucratic swamp.

And how could the state be so stupid to let it happen?

No. I heard the state guys talking.

That's across state lines—upsets the Feds.