invasion
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"While environmental factors could have played a role, our findings most directly implicate the chytrid fungus, revealing that regional invasion of the pathogen coincided with these unexplained amphibian disappearances," Boyette said.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026
Ukraine’s Air Alert app was founded by two tech companies with support from the Ministry of Digital Transformation in the first days of Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
A humanitarian ceasefire took force across the frontline region of Kherson on Tuesday, providing the first few days of peace in the area in four years, following Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2026
Around 2,000 residents, compared with 24,000 before the Russian invasion, were still in Oleshky ahead of the humanitarian operation, according to Kyiv's estimates.
From Barron's ● Oct. 31, 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
When Alexander, not yet 30 years old, crossed the Hindu Kush, his conquest tipped from plunder, expansion and avenging Persian invasions into an epic and increasingly confused fantasy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 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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Franklin D. Roosevelt, "A Date That Will Live In Infamy" (1941)
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