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as in treaty
a formal agreement between two or more nations or peoples
a pact between the two small nations to defend one another in case of attack
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as in agreement
an arrangement about action to be taken
they made a pact to meet every week at the same time
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Recent Examples of pact
Whoever is calling the shots for the Padres will try to anticipate how the next labor pact will affect every team, not just the Padres.
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Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Jan. 2026
Devastated, Lori and her husband, Chris Coble, made a pact not to end their own lives and to support each other through the traumatic aftermath.
—Wendy Grossman Kantor, PEOPLE, 6 Jan. 2026
Elias has injected power into the offense by signing first baseman Pete Alonso (38 homers for the Mets in 2025) to a five-year, $155 million pact and trading for outfielder Taylor Ward (36 home runs for the Angels in 2025).
—Jim Bowden, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2026
The pact was renegotiated as a 20-year deal in 2005 when newspaper ownership changed; Gannett bought the Free Press and sold The News to MediaNews Group.
—Arkansas Online, 4 Jan. 2026
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Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Jan. 2026
Devastated, Lori and her husband, Chris Coble, made a pact not to end their own lives and to support each other through the traumatic aftermath.
—Wendy Grossman Kantor, PEOPLE, 6 Jan. 2026
Elias has injected power into the offense by signing first baseman Pete Alonso (38 homers for the Mets in 2025) to a five-year, $155 million pact and trading for outfielder Taylor Ward (36 home runs for the Angels in 2025).
—Jim Bowden, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2026
The pact was renegotiated as a 20-year deal in 2005 when newspaper ownership changed; Gannett bought the Free Press and sold The News to MediaNews Group.
—Arkansas Online, 4 Jan. 2026
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In 2026, the governance vacuum will deepen—the Indus Waters Treaty suspended, Ethiopia’s Nile dam operational with no binding agreement, China building the world’s largest dam with no downstream treaty.—
Ian Bremmer,
Time,
6 Jan. 2026
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After 15 years, Spanish troops dispersed the settlement—which had grown to 4,000, and had its own cavalry—but subsequent maroon groups forced colonizers to sign treaties with them.—
Laurent Dubois,
The Atlantic,
6 Jan. 2026
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Last week Meta announced agreements with three nuclear power companies for a data center in Ohio.—
Jordan Novet,
CNBC,
13 Jan. 2026
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That’s up from the current $249,000 and could grow to nearly $2 million over the life of the agreement, a person familiar with the negotiations told the AP earlier this month.—
Doug Feinberg,
Twin Cities,
13 Jan. 2026
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“Pact.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pact. Accessed 21 Jan. 2026.
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