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 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 The opinion was based on international treaties, like the Paris Agreement and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Jon McGowan, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
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Noun
  • Paramount Skydance’s 2025 acquisition of Paramount triggered a contractual change-of-control clause that gave the NFL an opportunity to redo its CBS deal, ahead of the league’s 2029 opt-outs in its media pacts.
    Kurt Badenhausen, Sportico.com, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Since the start of the free agency period, Indiana has signed Jalen Slawson and Kobe Brown to two-way contracts, and teams are permitted to have up to three players under two-way pacts at the same time.
    Tony East, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026
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  • This tension is sustained by the film’s movement between the conventions of narrative cinema and the durational logic of video art.
    Matilda Hague, Variety, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Reunion films, fan conventions, and a steady stream of syndication have kept the Walton family — and its cast — in circulation long after the original goodnights echoed across the airwaves.
    Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 13 Aug. 2026
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  • What followed were decades of a seemingly endless cycle of skirmishes, all-out wars, and (sometimes failed) peace accords.
    Tracy Grant, Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 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 17 Aug. 2026.

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