trust territory

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Recent Examples of trust territory The separatist movement dates back to the early 1960s, when the British Southern Cameroons, a United Nations trust territory previously governed as part of Nigeria’s eastern region, was joined with Cameroon. ABC News, 24 Apr. 2026
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Noun
  • He is scheduled to return to court for a settlement conference Thursday.
    Velvet Wu July 1, Sacbee.com, 2 July 2026
  • Unless the settlement fund is established and distributes payments, that scenario is unlikely.
    Iris Kwok, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026
Noun
  • Domestic recycling from secondary sources represents one pathway to reduce that dependency.
    Aditya Jadhav, Interesting Engineering, 30 June 2026
  • For incident response agents, this means producing an investigation trail with relevant alerts, logs, metrics, deployment and infrastructure events, and dependencies.
    Raman Varma, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026
Noun
  • The Education Department’s civil rights office had long been the last resort for parents who believe their child is facing discrimination at school, with a mandate to review all complaints.
    Heather Hollingsworth, Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2026
  • With James Dolan registering a mandate against going above the second apron, Knicks are not among the teams capable of giving Robinson a meaningful raise.
    Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 29 June 2026
Noun
  • Divisions are part of the price of democracy, argued Lincoln author and University of Florida professor Allen Guelzo.
    Chris Kenning, USA Today, 2 July 2026
  • The birthright citizenship ruling was a win for democracy — and a warning about erasing history, argues columnist Anita Chabria.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026
Noun
  • They were reportedly convicted of violating local morality laws under an Islamic Sharia court in Indonesia’s conservative Aceh province.
    Bonny Chu, FOXNews.com, 3 July 2026
  • Two of Canada’s 10 provinces, Alberta and Saskatchewan, are still selling American alcoholic beverages.
    Lizzie Kane, Sacbee.com, 3 July 2026
Noun
  • Aim to give cucumber plants an inch of water each week from irrigation or rainfall, and water when the top few inches of soil feel dry.
    Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 3 July 2026
  • Water deeply in the morning, check soil moisture regularly, and move plants to shade during heat waves.
    Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 July 2026
Noun
  • The centuries-old ceremony sees the sovereign symbolically accept the keys to the city of Edinburgh and immediately return them for safekeeping.
    Janine Henni, PEOPLE, 30 June 2026
  • This has seen both sovereigns and corporates raising billions of dollars in conventional bonds and sukuk over recent months.
    Melissa Hancock, Fortune, 30 June 2026
Noun
  • George Washington knew his forces could not win the American Revolutionary War without some measure of sea power.
    Christopher Magra, The Conversation, 2 June 2026
  • Iran’s conventional navy warships might be largely destroyed, but analysts say that’s never where its true sea power lay.
    Lauren Kent, CNN Money, 8 May 2026

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“Trust territory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trust%20territory. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.

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