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 Gone is a hadith likening Christians and Jews to maimed animals; 11th-grade students now learn about coexistence from the Prophet Muhammad’s treaties with Christians and Jews. Manal Albarakati, semafor.com, 12 Aug. 2026 The Geneva Conventions, a set of treaties governing the conduct of warring parties, which were ratified in the aftermath of the Second World War, forbid the arbitrary detention of civilians. Joshua Yaffa, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026 Before Screen Scotland, Davis spent seven years as the BFI’s head of international, helping broker the organization’s co-production treaties with China and Brazil. Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 23 July 2026 Instead, Koenigsberg said the treaties largely eliminate that outcome. Joshua Hong, Fortune, 23 July 2026 This counsel recalls the approach of former President Ronald Reagan, when negotiating nuclear weapons treaties with the Soviet Union in the 1980s. The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 20 July 2026 While Switzerland is not a European Union member, it is deeply integrated into the European single market via a network of bilateral treaties. Justina Lee, CNBC, 14 July 2026 This countered the favorable conditions previously established under the Reciprocity treaties and drove down the value of Hawaii’s sugar exports in the following years, negatively impacting the business owners. Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 July 2026 That pattern has held since the Revolutionary War, from the Navajo Code Talkers of World War II to today’s active-duty ranks, even as Native nations endured broken treaties, dispossession and federal violence at the hands of the government. Kerri J. Malloy, The Conversation, 9 July 2026
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  • NBCUniversal‘s Peacock launched a limited new membership program in a beta test with a variety of perks — aimed at keeping them from flying the coop as streaming subscribers, as well as driving incremental revenue from marketing pacts.
    Todd Spangler, Variety, 17 Aug. 2026
  • On climate, liberals would offer tax rewards for green energy, support joining climate pacts, and phasing out fossil fuels gradually over decades.
    Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 14 Aug. 2026
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  • But visitors come primarily for theme parks, conventions, cruises and vacations, and whose schedules are already packed.
    Rich Bradley, The Orlando Sentinel, 20 Aug. 2026
  • Assistants don’t normally come with this much lore, but Trump has never been one to follow conventions, and Harp’s unusually intimate bond with him hasn’t gone unnoticed, within or outside of the White House.
    Kase Wickman, Vanity Fair, 20 Aug. 2026
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  • Hoodoo accords a prominent role to collections of materials, often assembled into sacks or bags, that are deemed to possess supernatural power.
    Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 Aug. 2026
  • Sending energy down accords another of Caldwell’s principles of the body and that is balance.
    Ginny Whitelaw, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026

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“Treaties.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/treaties. Accessed 24 Aug. 2026.

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