trust territory

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Recent Examples of trust territory 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 Small, remote Pacific island nations such as Palau, a former U.S. trust territory, make up most of the list. Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2020
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Noun
  • If a settlement agreement is reached, that could pause a trial that started in New York last week and is slated to continue for several more weeks.
    Josh Sisco, Bloomberg, 9 Mar. 2026
  • The West Coast community was once the site of a gold-mining settlement—there's even a miner's cemetery there—but today it's prized for its golden sunsets.
    Madeline Bilis, Travel + Leisure, 8 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • In effect, the system nudges seniors toward dependency rather than prevention.
    Saul Anuzis, Boston Herald, 6 Mar. 2026
  • According to court filings cited by CBS News, his family claims Gemini encouraged delusional thinking, escalated emotional dependency, and ultimately pushed him toward suicide.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 5 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • But instead of helping the Postal Service, Steiner said regulators and Congress have imposed costly mandates.
    ABC News, ABC News, 5 Mar. 2026
  • The company argues any retail coin program is a mint and exceeds the Texas Bullion Depository’s mandate.
    Paul Flahive, Austin American Statesman, 5 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • So really being very active in other countries to promote democracy, also freedom for independent journalism and media elsewhere.
    Morgan Chalfant, semafor.com, 9 Mar. 2026
  • The letter codified the idea that the modern West—defined by liberalism, constitutionalism, and multi-party democracy—could be separated, conceptually, from the ancient West, as represented by Greece and Rome.
    Chang Che, New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The National Iranian Oil Refining and Distribution Company said missiles struck several facilities in Tehran and Alborz provinces and that firefighting teams were working to put the fires out.
    Omer Bekin, NBC news, 8 Mar. 2026
  • In January 2025 the Duseks’ new lodge, Few & Far Luvhondo, opened among the Soutpansberg Mountains in the Limpopo province of South Africa, with regeneration at its core.
    Lale Arikoglu, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • When Fritz competes on home soil, his tennis often blooms.
    Douglas Robson, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Ford spent decades dumping hazardous waste, including paints, solvents, heavy metals, construction rubble and contaminated soil on the river floodplain into the 1960s, none of which was addressed when soils at Highland Bridge were cleaned to residential standards.
    Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 8 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The situation weighs on regional risk on the margins, but most of those sovereigns carry strong balance sheets, Appio explained.
    Jason Ma, Fortune, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Counsellors of State are certain royals who can be called on by the monarch to act on his behalf if the sovereign is temporarily unable to carry out official duties.
    Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN Money, 20 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • To military experts, Trump’s fleet would be hopelessly unsuited to strategic and tactical threats that are already faced by American sea power and likely to become more dangerous by the time the vessels could be deployed.
    Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 1 Jan. 2026
  • The United States has deployed three naval vessels—including two aircraft carriers—capable of operating F-35 stealth fighter jets across the Western Pacific this week amid China's rapidly growing sea power and expanding maritime activity in the region.
    Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2025

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“Trust territory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trust%20territory. Accessed 12 Mar. 2026.

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