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Recent Examples of annexation
Carney is a smart, sober former central banker who is widely seen as best equipped to and annexation talk, plus whatever else Trump lobs next.
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Carlo Versano, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Apr. 2025
Trump hasn’t been tapped along because Putin has never retreated from his annexation ends or his savage means.
—Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 24 May 2025
The soldiers’ demands also suggest that Mr. Putin’s hasty annexation of four Ukrainian regions early in the war may have limited his current options in negotiations because a significant part of the population would view anything less as a defeat.
—Anatoly Kurmanaev, New York Times, 17 May 2025
Hawaiian planters were crushed, increasing support among the islands’ U.S. elite for annexation.
—Allison Carnegie, Foreign Affairs, 14 May 2025
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Carlo Versano, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Apr. 2025
Trump hasn’t been tapped along because Putin has never retreated from his annexation ends or his savage means.
—Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 24 May 2025
The soldiers’ demands also suggest that Mr. Putin’s hasty annexation of four Ukrainian regions early in the war may have limited his current options in negotiations because a significant part of the population would view anything less as a defeat.
—Anatoly Kurmanaev, New York Times, 17 May 2025
Hawaiian planters were crushed, increasing support among the islands’ U.S. elite for annexation.
—Allison Carnegie, Foreign Affairs, 14 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for annexation
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The law aims to address land ownership disparities rooted in the country's apartheid past by allowing land expropriation in the public interest.—
Shane Croucher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 May 2025
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The land expropriation law allows the government to make land seizures without compensation.—
Louis Casiano,
Fox News,
24 Mar. 2025
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Long before his streaming takeover, Ablack got his start as a child actor and fulfilled his Canadian rite of passage with a role on Degrassi: The Next Generation (2007–2011).—
EW.com,
EW.com,
5 June 2025
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The Financial Times reported in April that Banijay has held talks with ITV about a takeover.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
4 June 2025
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The Trump administration has voiced its support for all manner of geologic sequestration.—
Christopher Helman,
Forbes.com,
29 Apr. 2025
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President Barack Obama’s pivot to Asia achieved new levels of strategic engagement with the region in general, and with Southeast Asia in particular, after years of neglect, but it was challenged by caps on military spending imposed under sequestration.—
Michael J. Green,
Foreign Affairs,
31 Jan. 2022
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The impoundment act allows the head of the GAO to sue the president, if the agency concludes there has been a violation of the law.—
Deepa Shivaram,
NPR,
23 May 2025
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As of April, the GAO was looking into 39 other potential instances of impoundment under the Trump administration.—
Deepa Shivaram,
NPR,
23 May 2025
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No specific preemption law With multiple federal courts having ruled that the state laws are not preempted by existing US laws and regulations, ISPs' best chance at preemption is probably for Congress to implement a nationwide preemption law.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
30 May 2025
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Even in the context of POTS, arguments could be made that state efforts impeding fulfillment of national goals for the POTS transition might also be susceptible to preemption.—
Michael Santorelli,
Forbes.com,
29 May 2025
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Instead, the cuts must be codified through either the normal appropriations process or through the passage of a separate rescissions bill.—
Rachel Schilke,
The Washington Examiner,
12 June 2025
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The denial of a budget appropriation request related to salaries and staffing expenses is at the heart of a lawsuit filed by Sheriff Jaime FitzSimons in district court against the Summit Board of County Commissioners on Tuesday, June 10.—
The Summit Daily,
Denver Post,
11 June 2025
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Courts are also increasingly scrutinizing environmental claims—down to the assumptions behind individual offsets.—
Felicia Jackson,
Forbes.com,
3 June 2025
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Mass incarceration, which swept the country in the late twentieth century, rested on the assumption that a person spoiling for a fight with another person was weighing costs: that the difference between ten years and twenty-five would matter.—
Malcolm Gladwell,
New Yorker,
2 June 2025
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Rights group questions Israel’s seizure The Madleen set sail from Sicily a week ago.—
Yesica Fisch,
Los Angeles Times,
9 June 2025
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The matter eventually landed in the U.S. Supreme Court (Springer v. U.S.), with Springer claiming that the tax was a direct tax and therefore unconstitutional, and that the seizure and sale of his property deprived him of his property without due process of law.—
Kelly Phillips Erb,
Forbes.com,
7 June 2025
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“Annexation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/annexation. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.
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