annexed

past tense of annex

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Recent Examples of annexed Crimea struggles The situation seems to be the worst in Crimea, the southern Ukrainian peninsula that Russia illegally annexed in 2014. Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 25 Sep. 2025 It was followed by incremental advances, in the oblasts of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson, which Moscow claims to have annexed but does not fully control. Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025 Olathe annexed the parcel of land from Johnson County earlier this year as rural zoning. Taylor O'Connor, Kansas City Star, 16 Sep. 2025 Told in two timelines, Letters to Kafka explores her role as an active resistance fighter in Czechoslovakia after the Nazis annexed the country in 1938, and her life in Vienna from 1918 to 1925, forging her own path separate from her husband, and Kafka. Christine Estima september 12, Literary Hub, 12 Sep. 2025 At the end of April 2022, the Russian army moved the Kuindzhi Art Museum's entire collection to a museum in the capital of the Donetsk People's Republic, a separatist and politically unrecognized territory annexed by Russia. Yegor Mostovshikov, The Dial, 9 Sep. 2025 Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich laid out that vision for Gaza, saying areas of the enclave must be annexed by Israel and the gates of Gaza opened for Palestinians to leave. Aya Batrawy, NPR, 5 Sep. 2025 The closest precedent to today’s standoff was in 2014 when Russia annexed Crimea. Earl Carr, Forbes.com, 4 Sep. 2025 But unless the area were actually annexed by Boise, Ada County would still get the final say. Darin Oswald, Idaho Statesman, 2 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for annexed
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  • Goodwin Gaw, managing principal at Gaw Capital Partners, another panelist, added that his firm is investing in China’s data centers.
    Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The high military spending showed that Russia was not preparing for peace, but rather for more fighting on the battlefield in Ukraine, Kokcharov added.
    Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025

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