the United Nations

noun

: an international organization that helps to solve world conflicts peacefully

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In November 1946, Nardal left Martinique for New York City to begin her tenure as an area expert for the United Nations. Literary Hub, 22 Oct. 2025 More than 8,000 men and boys were killed in 1995 in the town of Srebrenica in what the International Court of Justice, the United Nations’ top court, formally recognized as genocide in 2007. Ellie Cook, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025 That’s expected to climb to 82 million by 2030, according to the United Nations’ International Telecommunication Union and its research arm, UNITAR. Dave Smith, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2025 The overwhelming share of scientists, agencies, and international groups—including NASA and the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)—agree that industrial-era greenhouse emissions are heating the planet, driving both costlier and more frequent storms. Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 22 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for the United Nations

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