semiautonomous

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He then linked his attempts to gain the semiautonomous Danish territory of Greenland to his failure to clinch the prize, telling the Norwegian prime minister that he no longer needed to think “purely of peace.”

From The Wall Street Journal

But despite a fragile armistice since Jan. 18, the Kurdish-led group is now backed into two small pockets of northeastern Syria and preparing for another possible offensive as Sharaa attempts to cement his grip on power and fold the semiautonomous group into his government.

From The Wall Street Journal

The semiautonomous territory of Denmark has long been a front-line area of defense for the U.S. through a 1951 treaty, but melting ice in the Arctic has made the island even more strategic in the growing rivalry with China.

From Barron's

As a semiautonomous Danish territory, Greenland is protected by NATO, which would not only marshal the U.S. military to respond to any attack but would also rally the alliance’s other 31 countries.

From Salon

Underpinning this existence is a deep reliance on the Kingdom of Denmark, of which Greenland is a semiautonomous territory.

From The Wall Street Journal