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exclave

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Definition of exclave

as in territory

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Recent Examples of exclave Arrivals had been increasing, but reasons still unclear The escalation at the frontier between Spain and Morocco comes after a surge in migrants attempting to reach the small exclave, mainly by swimming, on Wednesday. — CBS News, 30 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 Lithuania, which borders the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, has been one of Ukraine's staunchest allies during Russian President Vladimir Putin's more than four-year conflict with Kyiv, providing extensive military equipment and financial support. — Sam Meredith, CNBC, 2 July 2026 Putin also was asked in Kazakhstan about comments that NATO is capable of destroying Russian military assets in Moscow's Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad. — Arkansas Online, 30 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for exclave

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Deutsche noted a December 2025 warning from the Bank of International Settlements that a statistical test suggested that the gold market had entered bubble-like territory and that a significant correction could follow.

— Joseph Wilkins, CNBC, 4 Aug. 2026
When your annual payroll exceeds $300 million, that comes with the territory.

— John Romano, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 Aug. 2026

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Veteran wide receiver, Darius Slayton interestingly said Harbaugh already has been confronting players in a constructive way to reinforce accountability across the board in the first few days of training camp here in West Virginia.

— Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 3 Aug. 2026
As Scott Frost took to the practice field Monday to open UCF’s preseason football camp, construction workers a few hundred yards away busily put the finishing touches on the Roth Tower expansion at the Acrisure Bounce House Stadium.

— Matt Murschel, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 Aug. 2026

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Mainstream third spaces rarely account for the specific rhythms, values, and shared references of a diaspora, and Musly Club is betting that people will travel further and pay more for a room where none of that needs to be explained.

— Olivia Shalhoup, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
The decision could have broad implications for descendants of Italian emigrants, particularly in North and South America, where large Italian diaspora communities have ancestral ties to Italy.

— ABC News, ABC News, 29 July 2026

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Other common reasons include leaving a window open, a cat or dog bringing a bat inside, vegetation blocking the entrance to a bat’s usual roost, or a colony being excluded from its roost and searching for shelter, Donnelly explains.

— Olivia McIntosh, Martha Stewart, 1 Aug. 2026
The notion of zombies went back to that Caribbean nation’s days as a European colony, when huge numbers of largely African slaves were brutally disciplined and frequently worked to death by a white-settler minority.

— Dennis Harvey, Variety, 31 July 2026

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But Themis Trading's Saluzzi, a critic of high-speed trading, says that's a red herring because when the posts are received, not when they are released, is what matters.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 2 Aug. 2026
Drainage issues stemming from the Georgia Department of Transportation road widening project may have contributed to the floodwaters streaming into small businesses and storefronts downtown, officials said in social media posts.

— Taylor Croft, AJC.com, 2 Aug. 2026

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By the mid-nineteenth century the Hawaiian throne, and the British, were both losing power as the growing cartel of US plantation bosses aggressively sought sway.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 July 2026
The resort, on the site of a onetime sugar plantation, offers old-school Caribbean luxury.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 July 2026

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