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
  • The week ahead could bring shifts to income and larger money matters — perhaps even as simple as hearing of a bonus, settlement, inheritance, or getting into assets and investments.
    Kyle Thomas, PEOPLE, 1 Feb. 2026
  • With a settlement involving Yu Darvish’s contract expected before Opening Day, team sources said the final number will not significantly impact San Diego’s financial flexibility either way.
    Dennis Lin, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Davos has long championed cooperation, but cooperation without resilience quickly becomes dependency.
    Mark Minevich, Forbes.com, 30 Jan. 2026
  • The grant money is not guaranteed, but requesting the federal funds is one step in the process to help reduce the village’s dependency on private septic systems or intergovernmental agreements with other companies and communities, village officials said.
    Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 30 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • As always, the Fed faces its dual mandates for stable consumer prices that will grow at a relatively low and even rate, and for maximum employment, given current economic conditions.
    Erik Sherman, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Later, when the Biden Administration issued vaccine mandates, that fight was taken up by rising conservatives such as the governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis.
    Alexander Nazaryan, New Yorker, 29 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Threat to democracy Bishop Anthony Taylor's recent Facebook post and its coverage in Wednesday's Arkansas Gazette-Democrat greatly impressed me.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 2 Feb. 2026
  • Every day augurs some new threat—to democracy, to decency.
    Maya Singer, Vogue, 1 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • The fatalities in the attack by the Allied Democratic Forces, or ADF, include 15 men who were burned alive in a house and seven who were shot in Apakulu village in the Irumu territory of Ituri province.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Kyiv and Moscow remain at an impasse on key points, including Putin’s demands for parts of Ukraine that remain under Kyiv’s control in its eastern territory of Donbas’s Donetsk and Luhansk provinces.
    Bloomberg News, Boston Herald, 24 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Only water when the top layer of soil is dry, and never let puddles sit in the saucer.
    Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 1 Feb. 2026
  • And as the Olympics return to American soil in 2002, Kidd joined Meet the Press to reflect on what that moment meant.
    NBC news, NBC news, 1 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Calvin’s commentary emphasized clemency not only as a rational posture for a sovereign to adopt, but as a heroic virtue that is the essence of our common humanity.
    Bernadette Meyler, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Harry is due to attend the court proceedings, but this trip will not include a meeting with his father, King Charles III, as the sovereign will be in Scotland at the time.
    Séraphine Roger, Vanity Fair, 12 Jan. 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 2 Feb. 2026.

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