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invasion

[in-vay-zhuhn] / ɪnˈveɪ ʒən /


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

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

And it will be cast globally, to figures doing what is necessary to save their country from invasion.

From Slate ● Oct. 17, 2026

A young man goes to the movies and watches a newsreel about Operation Torch, the Allied invasion of North Africa in 1942, when the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

The study, "Large size of the Australian Indigenous population prior to its massive decline following colonial invasion," was published in Nature Human Behaviour.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

By the end of July 1945, an Allied invasion of Japan was imminent, and the Imperial Japanese Navy was incapable of conducting major operations.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

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

Legend has it that the lion-headed figure protected the country from invasions and was worshiped as a god of war in the ancient Nubian kingdoms of Kush.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

Then I rebuilt the tower, smoothly aligning its walls to toughen it against future invasions.

From "The Rock and the River" by Kekla Magoon


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