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noun

ˈa-ˌneks

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as in addition

a smaller structure added to a main building a new annex that will serve as the permanent home for the school library

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verb

ə-ˈneks

as in to add

to join (something) to a mass, quantity, or number so as to bring about an overall increase plans to annex the supply room so as to make the classroom bigger

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Noun

Joe’s Pub, an annex of the Public Theatre, is where Escola honed their craft in the early two-thousands. —

Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2024 In 1944, the famous diarist and seven other Jewish people hiding in the Amsterdam secret annex were detained. —

Benjamin Brown, CNN, 10 July 2024

Verb

Israel's finance minister Bezalel Smotrich, an ultranationalist anti-Palestinian settler, has taken many steps over the last two years to weaken the Palestinian Authority as part of his ideology of annexing the West Bank. —

Barak Ravid, Axios, 20 Sep. 2024 The official insisted that Ukraine had no interest in occupying or annexing a part of Russia but would seek to use its incursion to change the dynamics of the war, particularly in eastern Ukraine. —

Holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 15 Aug. 2024 See all Example Sentences for annex

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