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Recent Examples of exclave
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
Around 7,000 troops are taking part in the exercises, which are being held at locations in Belarus, as well as in Russia's Kaliningrad Baltic exclave and in the Baltic and Barents seas.
—Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 15 Sep. 2025
That route will connect Azerbaijan and its autonomous Nakhchivan exclave, which are separated by a 20-mile-wide patch of Armenian territory.
—Arkansas Online, 9 Aug. 2025
But the once sure-footed dynamic has given way to some second guessing their relationship with the American exclave, even for family.
—Omar Jimenez, CNN Money, 20 May 2025
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Thomas De Waal, Foreign Affairs, 22 Sep. 2025
Around 7,000 troops are taking part in the exercises, which are being held at locations in Belarus, as well as in Russia's Kaliningrad Baltic exclave and in the Baltic and Barents seas.
—Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 15 Sep. 2025
That route will connect Azerbaijan and its autonomous Nakhchivan exclave, which are separated by a 20-mile-wide patch of Armenian territory.
—Arkansas Online, 9 Aug. 2025
But the once sure-footed dynamic has given way to some second guessing their relationship with the American exclave, even for family.
—Omar Jimenez, CNN Money, 20 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for exclave
Noun
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In the 1930s, American oil companies arrived in Cofán territory.—
Stanley Stewart,
Travel + Leisure,
10 Jan. 2026
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Trump has sought to acquire the Arctic territory since his first term.—
Francesca Chambers,
USA Today,
10 Jan. 2026
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Tobolowsky was happy for the material — much of it from a Sears that was being repurposed into an outpost of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center — regardless of its condition.—
Tribune News Service,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 Nov. 2025
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Burns seems like someone who would fit in at Basgiath, or at one of the outposts on Navarre’s front lines.—
Corey Masisak,
Denver Post,
8 Nov. 2025
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Newsom has found himself in this camp.—
Sal Rodriguez,
Oc Register,
9 Jan. 2026
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The base camp also serves as headquarters for many of that team’s traveling fans.—
Blair Kerkhoff,
Kansas City Star,
8 Jan. 2026
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Local artist Talita Swarts is a walking encyclopedia of the African diaspora; guests can take a VIP tour with her through everything from the building’s architecture—the shape of the main atrium was built to mimic a single corn kernel—to individual exhibition pieces.—
Emily Baldwin,
Travel + Leisure,
8 Nov. 2025
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Mamdani’s victory places him at the forefront of a global cohort of diaspora leaders who have shattered political ceilings in recent years.—
Rhea Mogul,
CNN Money,
7 Nov. 2025
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The apparent goal is to turn Venezuela into a de facto colony for the financial benefit of a few.—
Elizabeth Shackelford,
Chicago Tribune,
9 Jan. 2026
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That's the thing that could happen in a different age where there were a lot of colonial powers and Greenland was a colony at that time and there were British colonies all over Africa.—
Ramy Inocencio,
CBS News,
9 Jan. 2026
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Several of Scherzinger’s posts this week have featured romantic moments in a series of video montages from their trip.—
Danielle Minnetian,
FOXNews.com,
9 Jan. 2026
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No other information was provided in the post, which was shared before the team's game at PPG Paints Arena against the New Jersey Devils.—
Michael Guise,
CBS News,
9 Jan. 2026
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Historian Caitlin Rosenthal shows how plantation owners refined these methods, the British perfected them, and Americans institutionalized them.—
Valerie L. Myers,
The Conversation,
8 Jan. 2026
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With the Louisiana Purchase, a huge domestic slave trade got under way, supplying labor to cotton and sugar plantations.—
Laurent Dubois,
The Atlantic,
6 Jan. 2026
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“Exclave.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/exclave. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.
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