variants
or detentes
as in rapprochements
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Noun
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Monday ranks highest for connection request acceptances.—
Sho Dewan,
Forbes.com,
19 Aug. 2025 -
But instead of acceptances and rejections, which would have been definitive answers, most of my classmates got no real resolution at all.—
Mary Frances Ruskell,
CNN Money,
15 Aug. 2025
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Meanwhile, Republicans in this fight have positioned themselves all along as the party against shutting down the government as leverage to squeeze policy concessions out of their opposition.—
David M. Drucker,
Twin Cities,
19 Oct. 2025
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Friday’s ruling is a fresh blow to this scheme, which was widely regarded as an effort to increase pressure on Democrats to make concessions.—
James Bickerton,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Oct. 2025
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“Détentes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/d%C3%A9tentes. Accessed 25 Oct. 2025.
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