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exclave

noun

Definition of exclave

as in territory

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Recent Examples of exclave 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. — ABC News, 30 July 2026 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 See All Example Sentences for exclave

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Asian markets were trading mixed on Tuesday, with South Korea's Kospi in positive territory, but Hong Kong and mainland Chinese markets down.

— Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 11 Aug. 2026
Some 4,000 troops from states and territories across the country are now deployed to the capital, down from a summer surge for America's 250th anniversary that pushed the force to roughly 5,000.

— Steven Beynon, ABC News, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of territory

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Throughout the conflict, the Hmeimem air base and the Tartus naval base were key Russian military outposts in the eastern Mediterranean.

— ABC News, ABC News, 9 Aug. 2026
Elizabeth Mulholland is set to take on the role of senior director at David Zwirner Gallery’s Los Angeles outpost, according to ARTnews.

— News Desk, Artforum, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of outpost

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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

Definition of diaspora

Noun

With an ecosystem as capricious as this, the local wildlife is born and bred to go with the flow—think gentle-but-giant humpback whales, colonies of industrious beavers, and torpedoing peregrine falcons, the fastest animals on Earth.

— Kat Chen, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Aug. 2026
If such a future comes to fruition, Swope added, his hope is that such extraterrestrial colonies would be governed by rules reminiscent of Western ideals and democratic principles.

— Jackie Wattles, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of colony

Noun

That includes checking a student's phone records and social media posts, going door to door at the student's dorm and questioning school staff and emergency contacts.

— Sarah Horbacewicz, CBS News, 13 Aug. 2026
With deep reserves and Stanford alumni Nadia Fingall and Ashten Prechtel both available in the post, Nakase opted to give Pretchel the first shot off the bench.

— Joseph Dycus, Mercury News, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of post

Noun

Washington himself had hundreds of slaves at his home and plantation in Virginia.

— Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Money, 11 Aug. 2026
Fires are often started illegally by plantation owners or traditional farmers to clear land for planting and those burns periodically blanket parts of Southeast Asia in hazardous haze, authorities said.

— ABC News, ABC News, 11 Aug. 2026

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