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as in treaties
a formal agreement between two or more nations or peoples
a pact between the two small nations to defend one another in case of attack
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as in agreements
an arrangement about action to be taken
they made a pact to meet every week at the same time
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Recent Examples of pacts
Related Stories Struck with Spain’s Movistar Plus+, the biggest Spanish pay TV/SVOD operator, the deal is a milestone for Mubi – its first Spanish series – and also for Movistar Plus+, marking one of its most significant multi-territory licensing pacts to date.
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John Hopewell, Variety, 30 Oct. 2025
Earlier pacts with Australia, Malaysia and Thailand also outlined multibillion-dollar plans, commitments to fair trade practices and to avoid export bans or quotas.
—Anniek Bao, CNBC, 29 Oct. 2025
The new trade pacts with Thailand, Cambodia, Malaysia, and Vietnam are set to unlock new investment and market opportunities, with practical impacts on sectors ranging from agriculture and energy to semiconductors and automobiles.
—Amanda Greenwood, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Oct. 2025
Netflix and Comcast are themselves in advanced negotiations for their own pacts.
—Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 24 Oct. 2025
The cap situation was tight heading into the offseason, and things got more restrictive when Trent Frederic and Evan Bouchard signed long-term pacts.
—Daniel Nugent-Bowman, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
Both Mays and Corbett are on one-year pacts.
—Charlotte Observer, 14 Oct. 2025
In the show, which Lincoln Hiatt and Andrew Golder created, contestants are confined to isolation pods with no sense of day or night, no human contact and no alliances – somewhat against the grain of the current spate of guessing game formats that require contestants to form pacts.
—Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 12 Oct. 2025
Over the course of the 21st century, several mutual defense pacts that looked ironclad on paper have collapsed under fire.
—Omar Al-Ubaydli, semafor.com, 8 Oct. 2025
John Hopewell, Variety, 30 Oct. 2025
Earlier pacts with Australia, Malaysia and Thailand also outlined multibillion-dollar plans, commitments to fair trade practices and to avoid export bans or quotas.
—Anniek Bao, CNBC, 29 Oct. 2025
The new trade pacts with Thailand, Cambodia, Malaysia, and Vietnam are set to unlock new investment and market opportunities, with practical impacts on sectors ranging from agriculture and energy to semiconductors and automobiles.
—Amanda Greenwood, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Oct. 2025
Netflix and Comcast are themselves in advanced negotiations for their own pacts.
—Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 24 Oct. 2025
The cap situation was tight heading into the offseason, and things got more restrictive when Trent Frederic and Evan Bouchard signed long-term pacts.
—Daniel Nugent-Bowman, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
Both Mays and Corbett are on one-year pacts.
—Charlotte Observer, 14 Oct. 2025
In the show, which Lincoln Hiatt and Andrew Golder created, contestants are confined to isolation pods with no sense of day or night, no human contact and no alliances – somewhat against the grain of the current spate of guessing game formats that require contestants to form pacts.
—Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 12 Oct. 2025
Over the course of the 21st century, several mutual defense pacts that looked ironclad on paper have collapsed under fire.
—Omar Al-Ubaydli, semafor.com, 8 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pacts
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Unlike the United States or Russia, which have operated under arms control treaties for decades, China faces no such limits, signaling a new era defined not by two superpowers but by three nuclear peers.—
Naveed Jamali,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Nov. 2025
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None of them have officially tested warheads since the 1990s, but the relevant treaties have largely lapsed, and Russia is believed to have carried out secret tests.—
Semafor Events,
semafor.com,
3 Nov. 2025
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But those agreements — usually to the tune of around $2-$3 billion in infrastructure and training investments — have paled in comparison to Microsoft’s commitment in the Emirates.—
Kelsey Warner,
semafor.com,
3 Nov. 2025
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As such, Bangladesh’s proposition in September 2025 to create a new institutional framework to manage water-sharing agreements with India for 14 transboundary rivers was viewed with suspicion in India.—
Pintu Kumar Mahla,
The Conversation,
3 Nov. 2025
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“Pacts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pacts. Accessed 11 Nov. 2025.
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