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 This is not, currently, an option for American productions which don’t have the mechanism, treaties, or federal tax incentive required for the lift. Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 2 Sep. 2026 King managed to take the suffocating history of the Indian — the treaties, the massacres, the Hollywood caricatures — and turn it into something conversational, even funny. Tommy Orange, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2026 Other presidential powers include the negotiation of treaties and the granting of pardons. Tracy Grant, Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 Aug. 2026 One example Khodarkovsky discusses has to do with making treaties. Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026 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
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  • 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
  • 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
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  • Democrats have held such midterm conventions in the past but are not doing so this year.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 10 Sep. 2026
  • Political parties typically do not hold conventions for midterm elections as there is no presidential candidate to select.
    Sara Tenenbaum, CBS News, 10 Sep. 2026
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    Noor Lobad, Footwear News, 8 Sep. 2026
  • Booze, black pepper, and leather accords give the note a sultry, noir bend, while white musks and soft florals transform vanilla into something comforting and cocooning.
    Ariel Wodarcyk, InStyle, 25 Aug. 2026

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“Treaties.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/treaties. Accessed 14 Sep. 2026.

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