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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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The law aims to address land ownership disparities rooted in the country's apartheid past by allowing land expropriation in the public interest.—
Shane Croucher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 May 2025
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The land expropriation law allows the government to make land seizures without compensation.—
Louis Casiano,
Fox News,
24 Mar. 2025
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The second of the two nights of takeovers centered around a parking lot where vehicles did burnouts and doughnuts and fireworks were set off as crowds watched, police said.—
Naperville Sun,
Chicago Tribune,
17 June 2025
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On an average basis, the gap between PSG’s salary costs and those of other Ligue 1 clubs has widened from €31.8m in the season before QSI’s takeover to €587.6m in 2023-24.—
Chris Weatherspoon,
New York Times,
15 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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The impoundment act allows the head of the GAO to sue the president, if the agency concludes there has been a violation of the law.—
Deepa Shivaram,
NPR,
23 May 2025
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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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At large, federal preemption of stronger state privacy laws hurts everyone, Hayley Tsukayama, associate director of legislative activism at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, wrote in a blog post earlier this month.—
Anisha Sircar,
Forbes.com,
22 May 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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Instead, the cuts must be codified through either the normal appropriations process or through the passage of a separate rescissions bill.—
Rachel Schilke,
The Washington Examiner,
12 June 2025
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The denial of a budget appropriation request related to salaries and staffing expenses is at the heart of a lawsuit filed by Sheriff Jaime FitzSimons in district court against the Summit Board of County Commissioners on Tuesday, June 10.—
The Summit Daily,
Denver Post,
11 June 2025
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The assumption is that Jones will be the primary backup to Anthony Richardson, but the Colts are leaving that up to the players to convince the coaching staff based on their performances in training camp and the preseason.—
Justin Grasso,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 June 2025
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In the trust game, the default assumption might be that others are trustworthy.—
Tobias Kalenscher,
Scientific American,
13 June 2025
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Rights group questions Israel’s seizure The Madleen set sail from Sicily a week ago.—
Yesica Fisch,
Los Angeles Times,
9 June 2025
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The matter eventually landed in the U.S. Supreme Court (Springer v. U.S.), with Springer claiming that the tax was a direct tax and therefore unconstitutional, and that the seizure and sale of his property deprived him of his property without due process of law.—
Kelly Phillips Erb,
Forbes.com,
7 June 2025
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“Annexation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/annexation. Accessed 20 Jun. 2025.
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