Provide
State
State verb - To convey in appropriate or telling terms.
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
- Some states provide a similar (but less comprehensive, obviously) program for witnesses to state crimes.
Source: Witness Protection -
This is because they're meant to provide the governor with a trained military force when the state's National Guard units are deployed elsewhere.
Source: Useful Notes / Yanks with Tanks -
In Transformers in general, the default state of Cybertron seems to be a state of civil war to provide a reason for robots to shoot each other.
Source: Civil War
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