Thesaurus results for TREATIES

treaties

noun

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 In a 2024 plebiscite, 29 percent of Puerto Rican voters supported outright independence, with 12 percent opting for independence with free association, by which Puerto Rico would potentially retain some ties with the United States on the basis of bilateral treaties. —

Scott Spires Britannica Editors June 3, Encyclopedia Britannica, 3 June 2026 Haudenosaunee laws and treaties, including Gayanashagowa, were communicated for centuries through wampum belts adorned with quahog shells. —

Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 21 May 2026 Under the Medicine Lodge treaties of 1867, the Southern Arapaho and Southern Cheyenne went to reservations in Indian Territory, now Oklahoma. —

Judith Kohler, Denver Post, 20 May 2026 Or to put it another way, the nation states, treaties, and climate summits make up the globe, while climate modeling and evolution and the periodic table of elements and carbon cycle are what define the planet. —

Literary Hub, 14 May 2026 While defending the defense agreements, parliament defense committee chair Nelson Koech said Kenya's treaties with advanced militaries provide training and intelligence-sharing opportunities that will make its defense stronger. —

ABC News, 11 May 2026 Instead, aid may foster a form of international cooperation that does not depend on treaties or direct reciprocity between nations but emerges from ordinary people’s willingness to pass on goodwill. —

Jb Bae, The Conversation, 5 May 2026 What Villars told me is that the ocean economy is entering a phase of decentralized and cross-sector collaboration, instead of grand inter-governmental treaties. —

Natalie Sum Yue Chung, Fortune, 3 May 2026 Mexican officials said existing bilateral treaties mandate strict confidentiality. —

Alexandra Koch, FOXNews.com, 29 Apr. 2026

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Disney+ has made similar pacts with the UK’s ITV and Germany’s ZDF.

— Max Goldbart, Deadline, 12 June 2026
Hezbollah rejected all those pacts, including one signed last week that called on it to unilaterally halt operations and withdraw from southern Lebanon.

— Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2026