annexed
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Land acquired by NorthPoint in unincorporated Johnson County was subsequently annexed into the City of Edgerton.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
Moscow currently occupies around a fifth of Ukraine, including Crimea, which it annexed in 2014.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
So it annexed the southernmost Mariana island, Guam, in 1898.
From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2026
Hitler returned briefly to Braunau in 1938, on his way to Vienna, after he annexed Austria to Nazi Germany.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
But annexed to it and preserved with it, probably in a single red case, were the three large volumes, bound in red leather, that Bilbo gave to him as a parting gift.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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