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Rule "The United States are (is) 246 years old"

This is one of many errors that LanguageTool can detect.

Description:	The United States are (is) 246 years old
Message:	In American English, 'the United States' is considered a singular entity, and therefore takes a third-person verb form.
Category:	Grammar (ID: GRAMMAR)
Incorrect sentences that this rule can detect:	The United States are 246 years old. Correction suggestion: is If the United States try to hit and annihilate Iran, this will be its last war. Correction suggestion: tries Whenever the United States do not succeed in invading, annihilating, dividing or controlling a country, they feel humiliated. Correction suggestion: does
Correct sentences for comparison:	The United States are not currently the only cultural imperialists, but today, as a global economic and political superpower, the spread of American values in the entire world is at the leading edge of a wave of spread of Western goods and consumerist culture. A noted series of HPIs for the United States are the Case–Shiller indices, devised by American economists Karl Case, Robert J. Shiller, and Allan Weiss. In another twenty years, the United States will no longer be able to be the police for the world. In that final, the United States upset the Cubans, beating them 4–0. Fur company posts that became cities in what is now the United States include Vancouver, Washington (Fort Vancouver), formerly the "capital" of Hudson's Bay operations in the Columbia District, Colville, Washington and Walla Walla, Washington (old Fort Nez Percés).
ID:	US_ONE_ENTITY [1]
Version:	6.6-SNAPSHOT (2025-01-08 22:33:10 +0100)