invasion
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Wagner also took a significant role in the invasion of Ukraine and recruited prisoners to man the front lines when Russian military ranks were depleted.
From The Wall Street Journal ● 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
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
Drones have emerged as a key weapon in the conflict, which was sparked by Russia's 2022 full-scale invasion of its neighbour.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
By 1941, when her feet and legs swell, whispers about an invasion grow louder.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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 apparently convinced themselves that Canadians essentially 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
It was a popular coast for invasions, therefore heavily guarded.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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Franklin D. Roosevelt, "A Date That Will Live In Infamy" (1941)
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