occupation
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There are plaques and memorials everywhere; the war and the Nazi occupation still seem present, even to younger generations who have lived among these memories their whole lives.
From Salon • Jun. 9, 2026
China is "steadily" building operational experience for "sustained occupation" of its Tiangong space station, and year-long missions are an important step towards future lunar and potentially deep-space ambitions, de Grijs told AFP.
From Barron's • May 24, 2026
Both methods pointed to human occupation around 150,000 years ago.
From Science Daily • May 20, 2026
“It does not take a lot of people to make an occupation really hard.”
From The Wall Street Journal • May 16, 2026
My tenth birthday, on September 15, 1939, passed unnoticed amid the confusion and uncertainty of those first weeks of German occupation.
From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson
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