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an association of persons, parties, or states for mutual assistance and protection in 1949 the U.S. and Canada joined their European allies in a transatlantic union to defend Western Europe from aggression by the Soviet Union

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Recent Examples of union Babb is a member of the union that represents deputies. Theresa Clift, Sacbee.com, 4 Oct. 2025 The White House has proposed layoffs to the federal workforce in response to a prolonged shutdown, which has drawn a lawsuit from various unions representing federal workers. Steve Inskeep, NPR, 3 Oct. 2025 Over 80,000 pilots are represented by the union. Alexandra Skores, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2025 The plan has already prompted one lawsuit from a union representing federal workers. Rebecca Beitsch, The Hill, 3 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for union
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  • Two North Carolina universities announced a merger.
    Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025
  • How does a century-old industrial company such as Firmenich (renamed DSM-Firmenich following its 2023 merger with Dutch chemical firm DSM) manage to remain globally competitive today, given that a large share of its cost base is in the most expensive country in the world?
    Peter Vanham, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2025
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  • In the sixteenth century, the nomadic, reindeer-herding Sámi people of what’s now northern Sweden and Finland and the Shawnee of the Ohio Valley in North America, who lived in farming villages organized as a confederacy, didn’t necessarily have much in common.
    Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Americans are divided on that topic, with 55% saying historical figures that supported the confederacy and racial segregation should not be memorialized in a June 2024 survey by the Public Religion Research Institute.
    Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The company operates these systems under contract with law enforcement agencies, neighborhood associations, and private property owners.
    Wren Smetana, AZCentral.com, 5 Oct. 2025
  • The players’ association and the WNBA agreed to an eight-year agreement in 2020, but the WNBPA voted last eyar to opt out of the agreement early.
    Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 5 Oct. 2025
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  • None of Taiwan’s three main political parties—Lai’s Democratic Progressive Party, the opposition Kuomintang, and Taiwan People’s Party—support unification with Beijing.
    PHILIP H. GORDON, Foreign Affairs, 22 Sep. 2025
  • The Sheraton Hotel, located on Tara Boulevard in Nashua, has been designated as the unification site, police said.
    Sophia Compton , Elizabeth Pritchett , Bradford Betz, FOXNews.com, 21 Sep. 2025
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  • Netanyahu, meanwhile, stands accused of having repeatedly turned down earlier deals with Hamas to appease extreme elements within his fragile coalition government.
    Romina Ruiz-Goiriena, USA Today, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Advertisement While trying to bridge internal party rifts, Takaichi will need to build a majority coalition and convince voters that changing leaders really matters.
    Jeff Kingston, Time, 4 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with KUOW public radio.
    Ashley Hiruko, ProPublica, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The congregation voted to hand over the deed, property and assets to the Nashville Baptist Association, but with the goal to start over as a replant church in a partnership with Green Hill.
    Andy Humbles, Nashville Tennessean, 6 Oct. 2025
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  • Venus enters Libra on the 13th and the New Moon follows on the 21st, lighting up your sector of intimacy, merging, and emotional contracts.
    Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Any disruptions in the merging of the SDF into the Syrian state raises the risk of an ISIS resurgence.
    Chris Massaro, FOXNews.com, 24 Sep. 2025
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  • The mini-alliances keep shifting.
    Grace Byron, Vulture, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Major global ocean carriers and their vessel-sharing alliances have made efforts to adapt to the fee structure since it was announced in April so that there will be minimal impacts on both service and bottom line.
    Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 6 Oct. 2025

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“Union.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/union. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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