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exclave

noun

Definition of exclave

as in territory

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Recent Examples of exclave 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 The escalation at the border between Spain and Morocco comes after a surge in migrants attempting to reach the small exclave, mainly by swimming. — Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for exclave

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However, maritime law experts point out claiming a territory is not this simple.

— Hanna Ziady, CNN Money, 18 Aug. 2026
The film itself was an odyssey of a shoot, as the cast traversed multiple countries and territories—Scotland, Italy, the Western Sahara, Greece—in all types of weather.

— Wisdom Iheanyichukwu, Vanity Fair, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of territory

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Al Sharaa reached an agreement with Moscow just days ago over two key Russian outposts in Syria; the Mediterranean coastal bases will be transferred to Syrian control.

— Paula Hancocks, CNN Money, 16 Aug. 2026
Radical settlers have established hundreds of additional outposts without government authorization, while still enjoying protection from the Israeli military and often other public services.

— Joseph Krauss, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2026

Definition of outpost

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At evacuation camps across Flores, children played under tarpaulin shelters while aid workers and volunteers provided psychosocial support alongside food and medical assistance.

— ABC News, ABC News, 18 Aug. 2026
Recent Chiefs camp videos show that Mahomes has progressed since then.

— Jesse Newell, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2026

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Dyangani Ose, who is currently the artistic director of the second Public Art Abu Dhabi Biennial, is known for championing artists from Africa and its diaspora, as well as for her artistic vision and collaborative leadership style.

— News Desk, Artforum, 12 Aug. 2026
These countries also tend to receive enormous quantities of remittances from their diasporas.

— Eghosa E. Osaghae, Foreign Affairs, 11 Aug. 2026

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Best Culturelle probiotics This effective Culturelle digestive health probiotic contains 12 billion colony-forming units of bacteria.

— BestReviews, Chicago Tribune, 14 Aug. 2026
As Amziah demonstrates during this lesson, the queen is the center of the universe and without her, the colony would collapse.

— Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of colony

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Trump will serve as chairman of the board indefinitely, according to the charter, possibly holding the post beyond his second term as president.

— Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 17 Aug. 2026
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a post to Telegram that at least six people were injured in the capital Kyiv and across the surrounding region.

— David Brennan, ABC News, 16 Aug. 2026

Definition of post

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In the British colonial holdings of the West Indies and American colonies, these slave-owning colonizers and plantation administrators were predominantly Protestant.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 Aug. 2026
And the Hemings family was an enslaved family, an enslaved Black family on Monticello's plantation who - which included Sally Hemings, who was the daughter of Elizabeth Hemings and John Wayles.

— Terry Gross, NPR, 14 Aug. 2026

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