invasion
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However, he said businesses were confronting weaker demand this year, and had not been raising their prices as they did in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
More than 80% of Kramatorsk’s population, which was close to 150,000 before Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022, has left the city, and hundreds more are leaving daily, according to local officials.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Ukraine, which is a major exporter of corn, wheat, colza, sunflower seeds and vegetable oil, submitted its EU membership bid days after Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
At $42, the level is far above the previous record set in 2022 following the invasion of Ukraine by key energy producer Russia, according to Bloomberg.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
This meant, among other things, that the colonizers expected support from the Crown, including money for defense against Indigenous peoples who fought back against the invasion of their homelands.
From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
The search for the source of the medbed conspiracy took me into the world of scammers and crystals and alien invasions and broken families and sci-fi movie sets and the Arizona desert.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 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
Sequoia’s Mineral King Valley has become such a hot spot for marmot car invasions that the National Park Service warns “You Are Entering Marmot Country.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 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
In my rare moments of downtime, I anxiously watch the preparations for the invasions.
From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins
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