alliance
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Australia is also an attractive market for foreign investment, as "we've got availability of land, we've got political stability, and we've got the Five Eyes security alliance," Dennett says.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
Nirvana had made this small corporate alliance permissible a couple of years earlier, finding a loophole as Cobain wore a T-shirt that read “Corporate Magazines Still Suck” on their Rolling Stone cover.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
"We are also working on a roadmap regarding the processes of joining the alliance," he added.
From Barron's ● Aug. 31, 2026
But if the ties of trade, kinship and strategic alliance are real, so is the deeply ingrained suspicion.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026
I'm wondering how many times he can possibly use the word alliance in one sentence when Tiny Cooper cuts Mr. Fortson off by saying, "Hey, wait, Jane, you're straight?"
From "Will Grayson, Will Grayson" by John Green and David Levithan
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Deepening alliances among Japan’s near neighbors—China, North Korea and Russia—have raised questions about the nation’s security, as well as the security of vital sea lanes that connect its economy to the U.S. and beyond.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
Mohammad Hassan Najmi, an international relations expert, told AFP that Tehran "believes its membership and active participation in these alliances can enable it to circumvent US and European sanctions".
From Barron's ● Aug. 29, 2026
But alliances can withstand a lot of friction—physical proximity alone probably makes a wholesale U.S.-Canada divorce impossible—and escalation isn’t guaranteed.
From Slate ● Aug. 25, 2026
While the majority of its public supports a nuclear South Korea, the government has argued that acquiring the bomb is unnecessary and even harmful to the country's network of alliances.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
This is something you can depend upon: there will always be alliances, of one kind or another.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
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