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Use "democracies" in a sentence
"Our “cooperation” with Canada or the EU, for instance, involves all kinds of loosely-codified exchanges that are based not on different aspects of state activity but on civil society and strictly private activities: that adds up to a bigger realm in democracies, again by definition, than it does in most dictatorships."
"Nevertheless, it has gradually been able to undo a great deal of official persecution in democracies in the space of only a couple of decades."
"For generations (actually, for millenia) homosexuals have been persecuted both in democracies and nondemocracies ..."