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Azerbaijan said one of the drones struck the terminal building of the airport while the other fell near a school in a nearby village in the Nakhchivan exclave, which borders Turkey, Armenia and Iran.
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Jasmine Green,
NBC news,
5 Mar. 2026
It is expected to connect Azerbaijan and its autonomous Nakhchivan exclave, which are separated by a 20-mile-wide patch of Armenian territory.
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Michelle L. Price,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Feb. 2026
Its Kaliningrad exclave is home to the Kremlin’s Baltic fleet and a wealth of other military assets.
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MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Nov. 2025
The pact on a corridor connecting Azerbaijan and its exclave of Nakhichevan is also vulnerable.
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Thomas De Waal,
Foreign Affairs,
22 Sep. 2025
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Jasmine Green,
NBC news,
5 Mar. 2026
It is expected to connect Azerbaijan and its autonomous Nakhchivan exclave, which are separated by a 20-mile-wide patch of Armenian territory.
—
Michelle L. Price,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Feb. 2026
Its Kaliningrad exclave is home to the Kremlin’s Baltic fleet and a wealth of other military assets.
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MSNBC Newsweek,
22 Nov. 2025
The pact on a corridor connecting Azerbaijan and its exclave of Nakhichevan is also vulnerable.
—
Thomas De Waal,
Foreign Affairs,
22 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for exclave
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Your creativity expands into new territory during the Scorpio moon.
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The most salutary was America’s Field Trip, a competition of a familiar kind, in which students between third and twelfth grade from across the states and territories submit drawings, prose, and essays.
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Along with a half-dozen other leading-edge American space outfits including Blue Origin, Axiom Space and Starlab Space, SpaceX has signed a Space Act Agreement with NASA to develop orbital outposts that could host NASA and Allied astronauts through the next decades.
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Finley’s Fiction, an outpost of the one on Shelter Island, will have kids’ story hour on Saturday mornings and author events; in July, Kate Doerge and Katharine Holabird.
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The way the loss came about should be raising alarm bells inside the US camp.
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Across the fence of the compound is another refugee camp, and the children there are celebrating Christ’s resurrection.
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Bravo, the diaspora director at the foreign ministry, told CNN that the Peruvian government’s hands are tied.
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The diaspora organized in parallel.
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For every Founding Father looking to free the colonies from British tyranny, there was a Larry (often called Lawrence here) who suggests that sharing desserts and umbrellas should be prohibited by the Declaration of Independence.
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Many native ants have single colonies with one queen, but Asian needle ants can live in supercolonies with multiple nests and multiple queens, sharing resources and moving between nests.
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The Iraq goalkeeper didn't make a play on it, as the ball hit the post and bounced away.
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See rules for Competitive Wordle toward the end of this post.
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About 12 million Africans were forcefully taken by traders from European nations from the 16th to the 19th century and enslaved on plantations that built wealth at the price of misery.
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Formerly privately owned and the site of two plantations, the land is now managed by the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources.
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“Exclave.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/exclave. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.
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