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An example use of nations in a speech by a native speaker of american english:
“… a group of 23 nations that are forced to …”
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the word nations occurs in english on average 34.4 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for B2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.