exclaves

noun

plural of exclave
as in outposts

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  1. outposts
  2. territories
  3. colonies
  4. camps
  5. plantations
  6. diasporas
  7. posts
Noun
  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered unauthorized West Bank settler outposts to be dismantled as his government faces growing scrutiny from the United States to rein in violence against Palestinians.
    — Claire Carter, The Washington Examiner, 7 Sep. 2026
  • Since 2023, more than 200 new settlements and outposts have been built or are under construction.
    — Amos Harel, Foreign Affairs, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of outposts
Noun
  • Israel captured the West Bank, along with the Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem, in the 1967 Mideast war, territories the Palestinians want for a future state.
    — Ibrahim Hazboun, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2026
  • Lionsgate will release the film in North America and the UK, as well as in Latin America through IDC, its JV in the region, and will team with international distribution partners in many other territories.
    — Tom Tapp, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of territories
Noun
  • Chilean and international researchers surveying the country's major breeding colonies in 2024 and 2025 found a 63% drop in active nests compared to the same sites three years earlier.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 2 Sep. 2026
  • The German influence is still clear today in the colonies’ shops, restaurants, and celebrations.
    — Erika Ebsworth-Goold, Midwest Living, 1 Sep. 2026
Definition of colonies
Noun
  • Interceptions were more frequent than in previous training camps, but, like the one with Moore, some involved the new wideouts fine-tuning their routes.
    — Brooks Kubena, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
  • Chop Robinson and Josh Uche had solid camps and should become the starters.
    — Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of camps
Noun
  • Humans are usually the ones who set off this bomb, through activities such as burning land to prepare it for agriculture and plantations.
    — Laura Paddison, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Under Spanish rule, able-bodied Malay men, from teenagers to adults, were required to perform 40 days of unpaid annual labor on roads, bridges, churches, forts, piers, plantations, haciendas and mines.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of plantations
Noun
  • As will perhaps already be apparent, the Ghetto is a product of much wider Jewish diasporas.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 8 Sep. 2026
  • But by rooting her tale in Maya’s family ties, the writer-director explores the complicity of well-to-do South Asian diasporas, and the foundations that afford them the luxury of emigrating in the first place.
    — Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of diasporas
Noun
  • Police also learned that the two had seen the social media posts and had left the area.
    — Vince Basada, Sacbee.com, 7 Sep. 2026
  • Miller said visitors mention everything from news coverage to TikTok and Instagram posts as reasons for stopping by to try the empanadas for themselves.
    — Peter Burke, FOXNews.com, 7 Sep. 2026
Definition of posts
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