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invasion

[in-vay-zhuhn] / ɪnˈveɪ ʒən /


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An invasion of Canada might not be straightforward from the US point of view either.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

He remained one of the few journalists who continued to report inside the country after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

South Korea has in recent years emerged as a major arms exporter -- particularly since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in early 2022 -- including through a multibillion-dollar arms deal with Poland.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

Before the start of the full-scale invasion in 2022, metallurgy and mining accounted for roughly 10% of Ukraine's GDP and a third of its exports.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

I had not cried the night of the invasion but I cried now, for our country was lost.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Last time a marine heatwave hit South Australia and Tasmania, there were starving penguins, fish kills, suffocating algae outbreaks, and jellyfish invasions.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

In both of these misguided invasions, Americans convinced themselves that Canadians did not exist, at least not as a people or a nation with a shared collective identity.

From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026

Castro is remembered by supporters as having guided Cuba through multiple crises -- US-backed invasions, embargoes, assassination plots and the intense hardship caused by the collapse of Cuba's main ally and benefactor, the Soviet Union.

From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026

Kagan insists that the Fourth Amendment cannot be defeated by slicing invasions of privacy into pieces small enough to appear constitutionally insignificant.

From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2026

In political organization, Polynesian islands ranged from landscapes divided into independent tribal or village units, up to multi-island proto-empires that devoted standing military establishments to invasions of other islands and wars of conquest.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond




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