treaties

plural of treaty
as in pacts
a formal agreement between two or more nations or peoples in accordance with a treaty between the United States and the tribes of the Pacific Northwest, commercial fishing of certain kinds of salmon is limited to Native Americans

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Recent Examples of treaties On Wednesday, von der Leyen proposed making Canada the EU's first associate member -- a status that does not currently exist in the bloc's treaties and would have to be created. — Arkansas Online, 18 Sep. 2026 Associate membership doesn't currently exist as a formal category under EU treaties, and any such arrangement would need to be created and ratified by member states. — Anniek Bao, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2026 On Wednesday, von der Leyen proposed making Canada the EU’s first associate member — a status that does not currently exist in the bloc’s treaties and would have to be created. — ABC News, 17 Sep. 2026 Europe offers Canada another path On Wednesday, von der Leyen proposed making Canada the EU’s first associate member — a status that does not currently exist in the bloc’s treaties and would have to be created. — Rob Gillies, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2026 After [World War I], there were international treaties placing limits on the use of chemical warfare in battle. — Laina Gustafson, Christian Science Monitor, 17 Sep. 2026 Whether to call these records constitutions is debatable; some are more like treaties; others are more like criminal codes. — Literary Hub, 10 Sep. 2026 That said, international treaties on threats like nuclear bombs and biological weapons took decades to develop and enact. — Kyle Orland, ArsTechnica, 9 Sep. 2026 Noah Segal Co-president, Elevation Pictures Segal, who runs the country’s top indie film distributor, sees co-production treaties and tax credits helping ease industry upheaval. — Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 8 Sep. 2026
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Noun
  • New Delhi has maintained close ties with Moscow, including through energy and defense pacts, while also deepening its strategic relationship with Washington.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 11 Sep. 2026
  • The financials are also unmatched, with last year’s annual check to each franchise from 345 Park Ave topping $450 million from leaguewide deals, primarily driven by the NFL’s $125 billion in media pacts.
    — Kurt Badenhausen, Sportico.com, 8 Sep. 2026
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  • However, those conventions become much more meaningful when students understand the intellectual practices underneath them.
    — Saurabh Anand, JSTOR Daily, 24 Sep. 2026
  • Users of classical psychedelics who underwent a major trip on the Fourth of July expressed reduced support for partisan political violence, whereas tripping around the time of the Democratic and Republican conventions increased it.
    — J. B. MacKinnon, Harpers Magazine, 22 Sep. 2026
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  • The accords failed to stop the war, creating a frozen conflict with an ever-rising human toll that ultimately gave way to a full-scale invasion.
    — David Brennan, ABC News, 15 Sep. 2026
  • The military value of these accords is unknown, and indeed, Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia are a first test for the latter agreement.
    — April Longley Alley, Foreign Affairs, 11 Sep. 2026

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“Treaties.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/treaties. Accessed 28 Sep. 2026.

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