States
States noun - North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776.
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Zones
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Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five has the United States of the future bombed "by angry Chinamen" and Balkanized into a number of heavily-militarized zones so as not to be a threat to anyone.
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Casablanca is filled with refugees fleeing from war zones or fascist police states, who are now targeted by all sorts of people seeking to exploit them.
Source: Film / Casablanca - This is because the two main television production centers in the United States, New York City and Los Angeles, are in these time zones.
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Zones and States. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 03, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/states/zones
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Zones or States. 2016. Accessed August 03, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/states/zones.
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