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exclave

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Definition of exclave

as in territory

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Recent Examples of exclave Hundreds of migrants set up camp on a beach in Spain’s North African exclave of Ceuta on Monday as local authorities struggled to cope with the thousands still in the tiny territory after a massive border rush last week. — Reuters, NBC news, 3 Aug. 2026 Most of the 60,000 migrants who swam, scrambled and later charged into the tiny Spanish exclave in North Africa this week had walked back to Morocco by Sunday, but some stayed on in the hills surrounding the city. — CNN Money, 2 Aug. 2026 Anadolu via Getty Images While enduring a drone attack against Nakhchivan International Airport in its eponymous western exclave on March 5, Azerbaijan did not come under any other fire so far in the Iran war that started on February 28. — Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026 Footage and images showed scores of people, many of whom appeared to be young men, bypassing the Tarajal border fence between Morocco and the Spanish exclave of Ceuta. — Chad De Guzman, Time, 31 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for exclave

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Sode’s All The Lovers In The Night, based on Mieko Kawakami’s novel about first love and false appearances, has so far been sold to 12 territories including Several Futures for the US and Ritual Films for Canada.

— Liz Shackleton, Deadline, 25 Aug. 2026
The platform has also secured exclusive SVOD rights across the CEE territory, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Turkey, Iceland, Cyprus, the Baltics, the CIS, Malta, Israel and Ukraine.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 25 Aug. 2026

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While Russia retains a presence, the era of it operating these as independent military outposts is over.

— Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 23 Aug. 2026
But my four nights at the Ranch Hudson Valley, the East Coast outpost of the Malibu favorite, reveal that this is neither austere boot camp nor cutting-edge wellness clinic.

— Johanna Wolfe, Robb Report, 22 Aug. 2026

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Successive governments from the political center, right and left maintained policies aimed at regularizing Venezuelans, eventually receiving nearly a third of the diaspora.

— Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 26 Aug. 2026
The parade featured more than 40 local diaspora groups, Malhotra said, including professional networks, nonprofits and religious organizations.

— Evgenia Anastasakos, Chicago Tribune, 23 Aug. 2026

Definition of diaspora

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In years past, only a handful of divers have been permitted by the park to descend to the site where the plane’s aluminum body lays upholstered with colonies of invasive mussels.

— Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2026
She’s covered enough megalomaniacs to recognize that someone like Stensen won’t spend billions of dollars building an underground colony that will never be used.

— Noel Murray, Vulture, 21 Aug. 2026

Definition of colony

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Indonesian police have arrested 72 people suspected of deliberately setting forest and peatland fires to clear land cheaply, as investigators probe whether plantation companies financed the fires.

— Niniek Karmini, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2026
Many let their plantations fall victim to rot; others abandoned cocoa farming altogether.

— Colette Davidson, Christian Science Monitor, 22 Aug. 2026

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