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Recent Examples of annexation
Carney is a smart, sober former central banker who is widely seen as best equipped to and annexation talk, plus whatever else Trump lobs next.
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Carlo Versano, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Apr. 2025
Trump hasn’t been tapped along because Putin has never retreated from his annexation ends or his savage means.
—Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 24 May 2025
The soldiers’ demands also suggest that Mr. Putin’s hasty annexation of four Ukrainian regions early in the war may have limited his current options in negotiations because a significant part of the population would view anything less as a defeat.
—Anatoly Kurmanaev, New York Times, 17 May 2025
Hawaiian planters were crushed, increasing support among the islands’ U.S. elite for annexation.
—Allison Carnegie, Foreign Affairs, 14 May 2025
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Carlo Versano, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Apr. 2025
Trump hasn’t been tapped along because Putin has never retreated from his annexation ends or his savage means.
—Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 24 May 2025
The soldiers’ demands also suggest that Mr. Putin’s hasty annexation of four Ukrainian regions early in the war may have limited his current options in negotiations because a significant part of the population would view anything less as a defeat.
—Anatoly Kurmanaev, New York Times, 17 May 2025
Hawaiian planters were crushed, increasing support among the islands’ U.S. elite for annexation.
—Allison Carnegie, Foreign Affairs, 14 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for annexation
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While the law permits expropriation without compensation under specific circumstances, the South African government insists that private property rights remain protected.—
Chloe Mayer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 May 2025
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The letter reviewed by Reuters shines a light on the people standing to gain from the expropriation.—
Anna Hirtenstein and Alexander Marrow,
USA Today,
18 Apr. 2025
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Long before his streaming takeover, Ablack got his start as a child actor and fulfilled his Canadian rite of passage with a role on Degrassi: The Next Generation (2007–2011).—
EW.com,
EW.com,
5 June 2025
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The Financial Times reported in April that Banijay has held talks with ITV about a takeover.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
4 June 2025
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The Trump administration has voiced its support for all manner of geologic sequestration.—
Christopher Helman,
Forbes.com,
29 Apr. 2025
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President Barack Obama’s pivot to Asia achieved new levels of strategic engagement with the region in general, and with Southeast Asia in particular, after years of neglect, but it was challenged by caps on military spending imposed under sequestration.—
Michael J. Green,
Foreign Affairs,
31 Jan. 2022
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As of April, the GAO was looking into 39 other potential instances of impoundment under the Trump administration.—
Deepa Shivaram,
NPR,
23 May 2025
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The outcry comes as Trump is already facing accusations of violating impoundment law from Democrats over an executive order pausing the disbursement of funds approved in two of former President Biden’s signature laws.—
Aris Folley,
The Hill,
28 Jan. 2025
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No specific preemption law With multiple federal courts having ruled that the state laws are not preempted by existing US laws and regulations, ISPs' best chance at preemption is probably for Congress to implement a nationwide preemption law.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
30 May 2025
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Even in the context of POTS, arguments could be made that state efforts impeding fulfillment of national goals for the POTS transition might also be susceptible to preemption.—
Michael Santorelli,
Forbes.com,
29 May 2025
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Their next move is to petition congressional lawmakers to explicitly write GISS's funds into an appropriations bill.—
Joanna Thompson,
Space.com,
28 May 2025
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In 2019, during the country’s longest government shutdown, Duffy voted against a transportation and housing appropriations bill that would have provided funding for the FAA but also included many provisions unrelated to air traffic control.—
Suzanne Rowan Kelleher,
Forbes.com,
22 May 2025
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Courts are also increasingly scrutinizing environmental claims—down to the assumptions behind individual offsets.—
Felicia Jackson,
Forbes.com,
3 June 2025
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Mass incarceration, which swept the country in the late twentieth century, rested on the assumption that a person spoiling for a fight with another person was weighing costs: that the difference between ten years and twenty-five would matter.—
Malcolm Gladwell,
New Yorker,
2 June 2025
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This can lead to unwanted complications, such as muscle cramps or seizures.—
Health,
Health,
28 May 2025
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It’s been a bumper seven days for law enforcement working on cyber and dark web investigations, who have accomplished a slew of takedowns, arrests and seizures across the world.—
Thomas Brewster,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2025
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“Annexation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/annexation. Accessed 11 Jun. 2025.
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