as in pacts
a formal agreement between two or more nations or peoples
in accordance with a treaty between the United States and the tribes of the Pacific Northwest, commercial fishing of certain kinds of salmon is limited to Native Americans
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Recent Examples of treaties
The appropriations were meant to provide homes for the tribes in Northern California who were without lands due to unratified treaties.
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Kurt Snibbe, Oc Register, 13 Oct. 2025
These developments could undermine decades of nuclear non-proliferation efforts and heighten global security risks, particularly as existing treaties approach expiration.
—Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
There are also treaties and orders that focus on education and spell out the federal government’s responsibility to help coordinate and give money to support tribal education.
—Cynthia Lindquist, The Conversation, 7 Oct. 2025
Such work would be an important reality check as society grapples with this kind of emerging threat from AI, says Casadevall, but would be tricky to do, as it might be precluded by international treaties prohibiting the development of biological weapons.
—Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR, 2 Oct. 2025
Indeed, Clara Films is one of several Latino companies setting up shop in Spain in order to better tap the country’s generous film incentives and expanding co-production treaties with a host of countries.
—Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 1 Oct. 2025
The international treaties and regimes that govern nuclear issues, particularly the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), are badly frayed.
—Mariano-Florentino CuÉllar, Foreign Affairs, 25 Sep. 2025
Across sectors from heavy industry to fast fashion, corporate lobbying continues to resist reforms such as tougher building codes, plastics treaties, and textile standards.
—Felicia Jackson, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
The founders expected the federal government to deal with issues of national concern, such as protecting the border, entering into treaties with other nations, and settling disputes between the states.
—Adam A. Millsap, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
Kurt Snibbe, Oc Register, 13 Oct. 2025
These developments could undermine decades of nuclear non-proliferation efforts and heighten global security risks, particularly as existing treaties approach expiration.
—Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
There are also treaties and orders that focus on education and spell out the federal government’s responsibility to help coordinate and give money to support tribal education.
—Cynthia Lindquist, The Conversation, 7 Oct. 2025
Such work would be an important reality check as society grapples with this kind of emerging threat from AI, says Casadevall, but would be tricky to do, as it might be precluded by international treaties prohibiting the development of biological weapons.
—Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR, 2 Oct. 2025
Indeed, Clara Films is one of several Latino companies setting up shop in Spain in order to better tap the country’s generous film incentives and expanding co-production treaties with a host of countries.
—Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 1 Oct. 2025
The international treaties and regimes that govern nuclear issues, particularly the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), are badly frayed.
—Mariano-Florentino CuÉllar, Foreign Affairs, 25 Sep. 2025
Across sectors from heavy industry to fast fashion, corporate lobbying continues to resist reforms such as tougher building codes, plastics treaties, and textile standards.
—Felicia Jackson, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
The founders expected the federal government to deal with issues of national concern, such as protecting the border, entering into treaties with other nations, and settling disputes between the states.
—Adam A. Millsap, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for treaties
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In the show, which Lincoln Hiatt and Andrew Golder created, contestants are confined to isolation pods with no sense of day or night, no human contact and no alliances – somewhat against the grain of the current spate of guessing game formats that require contestants to form pacts.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
12 Oct. 2025
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Over the course of the 21st century, several mutual defense pacts that looked ironclad on paper have collapsed under fire.—
Omar Al-Ubaydli,
semafor.com,
8 Oct. 2025
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While the filmmaking itself is not atmospheric or distinctive enough to help, a core problem is that Stuckmann’s script (from a story conceived with wife Samantha Elizabeth) comes off as a checklist of horror conventions rather than something that’s building its own original mythology.—
Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
13 Oct. 2025
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The gay rodeo movement pushed back at the conventions that pressured them to leave their communities and leaned into traditions from which they might otherwise be excluded.—
Sarah Henry,
Louisville Courier Journal,
13 Oct. 2025
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In 1993 – 15 years later – secret talks during the Clinton administration led to the Oslo accords, under which the PLO recognized Israel, and a Palestinian governing authority was created for the West Bank.—
Carl Leubsdorf,
Mercury News,
15 Oct. 2025
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Ali said there have been other examples throughout world history of rebel groups cooperating with peace accords after long periods of fighting.—
Bill Hutchinson,
ABC News,
14 Oct. 2025
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“Treaties.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/treaties. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.
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