TRUST TERRITORY Synonyms: 49 Similar Words

trust territory

noun

Definition of trust territory

as in settlement

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Recent Examples of trust territory The separatist movement dates back to the early 1960s, when the British Southern Cameroons, a United Nations trust territory previously governed as part of Nigeria’s eastern region, was joined with Cameroon. — ABC News, 24 Apr. 2026 In total, the Trusteeship Council oversaw 11 trust territories. — Lloyd Axworthy, Foreign Affairs, 15 May 2024 Somaliland became independent from Britain in 1960, a few days before Somalia, then a trust territory administered by Italy, gained its own sovereignty. — Michael M. Phillips, WSJ, 1 Feb. 2022

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Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov indicated Monday that the chances of making speedy headway on forging a peace settlement were bleak after recent Ukrainian attacks, including during recent parliamentary elections in Russia.

— HANNA ARHIROVA, Arkansas Online, 29 Sep. 2026
The settlement allows colleges to directly pay athletes a share of up to 22% of the average Power conference athletic media, ticket and sponsorship revenue.

— Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 28 Sep. 2026

Definition of settlement

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Good work design therefore asks which dependencies improve the decision and which merely create waiting, meetings and escalation.

— Samuel Rodrigues, Forbes.com, 29 Sep. 2026
And as this dependency has grown, so, too, have countries’ concerns about defending their assets in space.

— Mary Randolph, Scientific American, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of dependency

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Areas at high risk of flooding and where few people are insured tend to be poorer, experts said, as are areas where FEMA's flood maps don't properly convey the severity of the risk or mandate that enough people buy coverage.

— MICHAEL PHILLIS, Arkansas Online, 30 Sep. 2026
Traffic has increased following the implementation of the return-to-office mandate, said 50 Corridor TMA in an Eventbrite post on the fair.

— Madison Smalstig, Sacbee.com, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of mandate

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Barber argued that unfettered capitalism and the backlash to it, which was increasingly expressed through forms of fundamentalist extremism, although in contest with each other, were both a danger to democracies.

— Ishaan Tharoor, New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2026
Netanyahu then got to the heart of the lies perpetrated against the only democracy in the region.

— Cal Thomas, Arkansas Online, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of democracy

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Karondwa is the acting president of the party's federal executive in Butembo in North Kivu province, one of the hot spots of the outbreak.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 29 Sep. 2026
Manak noted that Canadian provinces banned US alcohol only in response to threatened US tariffs.

— Elisabeth Buchwald, CNN Money, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of province

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Introduced crawling through the Trask family’s field, her black blood spattering their rich soil like a human pesticide, Cathy personifies the series’ potent blend of dread and beauty.

— Ben Travers, IndieWire, 1 Oct. 2026
During dry periods, soil-dwelling bacteria produce a compound called geosmin that deters insects such as fruit flies.

— Gregory Wakeman, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of soil

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Against encroaching social upheavals, the sovereign was resolutely the center of a mercantilist universe.

— Sophie Landres, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
The couple will remain non-working royals and will not be carrying out any official royal engagements on behalf of the sovereign, the document said.

— Jennifer Hassan, USA Today, 16 Sep. 2026

Definition of sovereign

Noun

George Washington knew his forces could not win the American Revolutionary War without some measure of sea power.

— Christopher Magra, The Conversation, 2 June 2026
Iran’s conventional navy warships might be largely destroyed, but analysts say that’s never where its true sea power lay.

— Lauren Kent, CNN Money, 8 May 2026

Definition of sea power

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