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Recent Examples of entente cordialeThe United States Tennis Association, under its former executive director, Gordon Smith, showed no interest in an entente cordiale.—Christopher Clarey, New York Times, 11 May 2023 China on its periphery’s long arc from Japan across Southeast Asia out to India and Pakistan; Russia in Eastern and Central Europe; and the Russian-Iranian-Chinese entente cordiale in the Middle East.—John Bolton, WSJ, 30 Aug. 2021 Pernod looks like an entente cordiale by comparison.—Washington Post, 20 Sep. 2019 Plane spotters attending the show, which by entente cordiale alternates annually with that in Paris, will be hoping for an appearance by one of the F-35 Lightning fighters delivered recently to Britain’s air force and navy.—The Economist, 5 July 2018
Or to put it another way, the nation states, treaties, and climate summits make up the globe, while climate modeling and evolution and the periodic table of elements and carbon cycle are what define the planet.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
14 May 2026
The last nuclear arms pact, known as the New START treaty, between Russia and the United States expired in February, removing any caps on the two largest atomic arsenals for the first time in more than a half-century.
The slim cushion compact makes both pre-makeup application and over-makeup touch-ups feel practically effortless, thanks to its lightweight hybrid sunscreen formula.
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Christa Joanna Lee,
Allure,
22 May 2026
This compact began to fray in the 2010s as the scrappy upstarts of the early days grew into globe-spanning giants with untold power and influence.
Export controls on rare earths were only offset for one year, or until the entente once again frays—something that seems likely, given that access to the critical minerals is dependent on Chinese access to U.S. semiconductors.
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Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
4 Nov. 2025
Particularly important has been Hamas’s long-standing entente with Islamic Jihad.
The neighborhood Estelle Manor’s 60-acre estate is wrapped in 3,000 acres of parkland and there’s no view of any settlement from the house.
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Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
18 May 2026
One trust would collect money from the church, parishes, schools and insurance settlements to compensate survivors, while the second trust would manage litigation and insurance claims against insurers that did not settle.
The language of covenant, liberty, moral responsibility, human dignity, and redemption helped shape the nation’s moral imagination from the very beginning.
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Ari Berman,
New York Daily News,
15 May 2026
Our covenant as an American people is e pluribus unum, out of many, one.
Applied Intuition also acquired EpiSci last year to integrate its tactical AI, and forged an alliance with defense business SNC to fast-track autonomy on the battlefield.
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Rebecca Fannin,
CNBC,
19 May 2026
For decades, the now-defunct alliance organized the only large-scale public commemoration in China that attracted tens of thousands annually until the event was banned in 2020 during the first year of the coronavirus pandemic.