bloc
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The EU's new pact, which was nearly 10 years in the making, introduces mandatory screening and an updated database to track those arriving in the bloc.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
Cuba has experienced many crises since then -- sanctions, hurricanes, a pandemic and the collapse of the Soviet bloc.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
Most of the people who reach the bloc illegally cross the Mediterranean Sea, with boats landing on the shores of Italy, Greece and Spain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026
In Nevada, Latinos are a substantial and increasingly powerful voting bloc.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2026
With six full suffrage states and two million female voters, there already existed a readymade voting bloc with the potential to influence state and national elections.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
Both blocs have fallen short of the 90 seats that are needed for a majority in Denmark's 179-seat parliament.
From BBC ● Mar. 24, 2026
After all, that transition is similar to what happened with Irish and Italian voting blocs during the mid-20th century.
From Slate ● Dec. 10, 2025
"Too many countries are retreating into geopolitical blocs or the battlegrounds of protectionism," he said, but added: "In every rupture resides the responsibility to build -- nostalgia is not a strategy."
From Barron's ● Nov. 23, 2025
The National Assembly is broadly divided into three blocs with opposing views.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2025
According to the skeptics, Maya society was divided into a small number of blocs, each controlled by a dominant city, each striving to achieve some semblance of empire.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
Vocabulary lists containing bloc
Human Geography - Middle School
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Human Geography - High School
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Eastern Europe - Introductory
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