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Observers fear that Azerbaijan might be preparing another offensive, with the goal of securing a route to its own exclave of Nakhichevan—a region of around 100,000 people that is separated from Azerbaijan by a sliver of Armenian territory.
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Olesya Vartanyan, Foreign Affairs, 8 Dec. 2023
Baku is currently demanding that Yerevan agree to the establishment of a corridor through Armenian territory that would connect Azerbaijan to Nakhchivan, an exclave of Azerbaijan jammed between Iran, Armenia, and Turkey.
—Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar, Foreign Affairs, 10 Apr. 2023
Lithuania accused Moscow of waging a propaganda battle and taking a threatening stance in a standoff over Vilnius restricting the transit of sanctioned goods to the Russia’s exclave of Kaliningrad.
—Bloomberg.com, 23 June 2022
Russia has released a U.S. Navy veteran who apparently illegally crossed the border from Poland into the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad last year and was held there for nine months.
—Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2023
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Olesya Vartanyan, Foreign Affairs, 8 Dec. 2023
Baku is currently demanding that Yerevan agree to the establishment of a corridor through Armenian territory that would connect Azerbaijan to Nakhchivan, an exclave of Azerbaijan jammed between Iran, Armenia, and Turkey.
—Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar, Foreign Affairs, 10 Apr. 2023
Lithuania accused Moscow of waging a propaganda battle and taking a threatening stance in a standoff over Vilnius restricting the transit of sanctioned goods to the Russia’s exclave of Kaliningrad.
—Bloomberg.com, 23 June 2022
Russia has released a U.S. Navy veteran who apparently illegally crossed the border from Poland into the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad last year and was held there for nine months.
—Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2023
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Noun
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Most of Jesus’ ministry had been centered in the northern territories surrounding the Sea of Galilee, away from the seat of power.—
Lynne Silva-Breen,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
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Sensing an opportunity amid the weakening of central authorities in Syria and Iraq and growing international support for the Kurds in Northern Syria, the President of the Iraqi Kurdish territory held a controversial independence referendum.—
Sefa Secen & Serhun Al / Made by History,
TIME,
7 Feb. 2025
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His most recent exhibition closed at Peter Freeman Inc.’s New York outpost in January.—
News Desk,
Artforum,
18 Feb. 2025
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Season 3 of Mike White’s anthology series, which premieres on Sunday, follows a motley crew of vacationers at a Southeast Asian outpost of the titular hotel.—
Hannah Giorgis,
The Atlantic,
14 Feb. 2025
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Read on to find a list of foods in the latter camp that registered dietitians wholeheartedly recommend.—
Erica Sloan,
SELF,
11 Feb. 2025
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In Mae La camp, Rosella can’t stray far from her oxygen tank.—
Ivan Watson,
CNN,
11 Feb. 2025
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Read the story » What the war in Gaza has revealed about American Judaism: Isaac Chotiner interviews the journalist Peter Beinart about the story of Israel and the moral blind spot of the Jewish diaspora.—
Ian Crouch,
The New Yorker,
14 Feb. 2025
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As someone from the African diaspora, my excitement was tempered by Hollywood's long history of mishandling stories from the continent, turning rich cultures into tired clichés that make many of us cringe.—
Susan Akyeampong,
refinery29.com,
13 Feb. 2025
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But the practice exploded with the influx of Spanish, Dutch, French and Portuguese colonialists, eventually spreading throughout South and Central America, Mexico, the 13 British colonies and what is now the American Southwest.—
Marc Ramirez,
USA TODAY,
6 Feb. 2025
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Different pieces of the same coral colony are, for the most part, genetically identical.—
Benji Jones,
Vox,
4 Feb. 2025
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Trump echoed Musk's criticism of FEMA and continued to bash it in a social media post on Truth Social Tuesday.—
Luke Barr,
ABC News,
11 Feb. 2025
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The ride-hailing company will use Intel’s Mobileye AV tech and Japanese conglomerate Marubeni’s fleet of cars at launch, CEO David Risher revealed in a series of posts on X. Marubeni currently manages over 900,000 vehicles globally through various subsidiaries and joint ventures.—
Jibin Joseph,
PCMAG,
11 Feb. 2025
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There are Corinthian columns across the front, a veranda on either side, and the ghosts of plantation cotton all around.—
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
4 Feb. 2025
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Its unit Panoramic Industrial Development owns large tracts of land in Johor, a predominantly plantation area that Malaysia and Singapore are developing into a special economic zone.—
Jonathan Burgos,
Forbes,
30 Jan. 2025
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“Exclave.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/exclave. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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