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 Its treaties and agreements focus on preserving the peaceful, safe, and sustainable use of outer space, preventing collisions, managing space debris, and ensuring responsible operations. — David Zamora, Space.com, 23 Oct. 2026 Another issue, which is present in all international laws, is treaty reservations, which allow governments to effectively ratify treaties while opting out of certain parts of them. — Mary Lind, The Conversation, 21 Oct. 2026 The parties have met twice since and still have not settled on how existing treaties should govern the technique. — Alec Luhn, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2026 International funding, Patil says, means long waits, complicated contracts and co-production treaties, and Indian filmmakers end up chasing the same grants as professionals from wealthier countries. — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 12 Oct. 2026 In a warning, the panel said the sector will remain vulnerable until Haiti accedes to international treaties regulating the trade. — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 7 Oct. 2026 International treaties and agreements govern the use and proliferation of the inputs used to create biological, chemical and nuclear weapons. — Elizabeth Shackelford, Chicago Tribune, 2 Oct. 2026 Most governments agreed to deal with them through a patchwork of treaties and multilateral bodies that sought to guarantee freedom of navigation in international waters and assign coastal seabeds to adjacent littoral states. — Michael Albertus, Foreign Affairs, 30 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. — Arkansas Online, 18 Sep. 2026
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Noun
  • The United States’ network of defense pacts is poised to get stronger as its allies get stronger, but only if rebalancing occurs with consent, foresight, and respectful treatment of partners.
    — Charles Kupchan, Foreign Affairs, 19 Oct. 2026
  • O’Connor will also be the BA team leader focused on first-look deals and overall pacts.
    — Peter White, Deadline, 5 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • For the past 15 years, Ishmael Butler and his cast of collaborators have drifted further and further into the outer reaches, deconstructing and reassembling hip-hop, jazz, and kosmische conventions into sprawling, proggy rhapsodies.
    — Dash Lewis, Pitchfork, 23 Oct. 2026
  • To keep the inventory fresh, Sean travels to industry conventions, including the Halloween & Party Expo, to see what’s new and decide what to bring back to Charlotte.
    — Evan Moore, Charlotte Observer, 20 Oct. 2026
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  • Interim peace accords in the 1990s recognized their water rights but preserved a system that allocated some 80% of water pumped from the main aquifer for Israeli use.
    — Melanie Lidman, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2026
  • 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

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“Treaties.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/treaties. Accessed 27 Oct. 2026.

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