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as in treaty
a formal agreement between two or more nations or peoples
the smaller countries signed an alliance pledging to protect one another against the belligerent behemoth in their midst
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2
as in coalition
an association of persons, parties, or states for mutual assistance and protection
an alliance between the French and the Algonquians to check Iroquois advances into their territory
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as in partnership
the state of having shared interests or efforts (as in social or business matters)
in alliance with booksellers, the nation's schools are promoting National Reading Month
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Recent Examples of alliance
Instead, China reached out in Europe, seeking to bolster investment alliances.
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Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 10 Apr. 2025
Part of this preparation also includes discussing the importance of alliances—connecting with other groups that understand discrimination or prejudice, and finding common ground.
—Jason Touvi, Sun Sentinel, 9 Apr. 2025
The organizations’ alliance blends LJI’s academic prowess with Kyowa Kirin’s drug development and commercialization expertise.
—Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Apr. 2025
His apparent alliance with Trump was not his first link with a president.
—James Barron, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2025
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Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 10 Apr. 2025
Part of this preparation also includes discussing the importance of alliances—connecting with other groups that understand discrimination or prejudice, and finding common ground.
—Jason Touvi, Sun Sentinel, 9 Apr. 2025
The organizations’ alliance blends LJI’s academic prowess with Kyowa Kirin’s drug development and commercialization expertise.
—Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Apr. 2025
His apparent alliance with Trump was not his first link with a president.
—James Barron, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for alliance
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Trump threatened earlier this year to levy additional tariffs against Mexico after the country missed the deadline to send over water to the U.S. from the Rio Grande River, stipulated by a 1944 treaty.—
Filip Timotija,
The Hill,
15 Apr. 2025
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Over this period, Washington and Moscow have been engaging in serious efforts to limit and reduce their arsenals of nuclear weapons, sometimes through treaties and sometimes through unilateral initiatives conducted in parallel.—
Rose Gottemoeller,
Foreign Affairs,
15 Apr. 2025
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What To Know Thursday's ruling by Hollander was in response to a case brought against DOGE by a coalition of labor unions and retirees who argued giving the new body access to Social Security data breached privacy and was a security risk.—
Nicholas Creel,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Apr. 2025
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Now Knight oversees a team of 13 mostly remote workers from a small office on Orange Avenue, setting the priorities for the group confronting some of the state’s biggest challenges — and advocating for its findings alongside a coalition of organizations across the state.—
Ryan Gillespie,
The Orlando Sentinel,
17 Apr. 2025
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OpenAI’s partnership with Microsoft is evident with GPT-4.1 models being made available through Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service and integrated into developer tools like GitHub Copilot and GitHub Models.—
Janakiram MSV,
Forbes.com,
15 Apr. 2025
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Doral officials told the Miami Herald that the partnership with ICE is not intended to criminalize immigrants who live in Doral.—
Verónica Egui Brito,
Miami Herald,
14 Apr. 2025
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As part of the pact, Korine will also serve on the jury at Runway’s AI Film Festival that will take place at New York’s Alice Tully Hall and L.A.’s The Broad Stage Theater this June.—
Steven Zeitchik,
HollywoodReporter,
10 Apr. 2025
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That came after the British government’s rejection, on April 1, of an attempt by Europe to make London’s participation in a defense pact conditional on its readiness to allow EU fishing boats into British waters.—
Colette Davidson,
Christian Science Monitor,
9 Apr. 2025
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Americans are divided on that topic, with 55% saying historical figures that supported the confederacy and racial segregation should not be memorialized in a June 2024 survey by the Public Religion Research Institute.—
Karissa Waddick,
USA Today,
19 Apr. 2025
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Men were the representatives of their clans and nations in the Haudenosaunee council, which made decisions for the confederacy as a whole.—
The Editors,
JSTOR Daily,
21 Nov. 2024
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Brick Oliver, representing the homeowners association for the Cadence at Bainbridge, the development’s 55 and over community, said Thursday that 98% of respondents to the association’s survey opposed the In-N-Out.—
Rose Evans,
Idaho Statesman,
19 Apr. 2025
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But for Rodgers – who ran his best time in the two-mile his senior year at Wesleyan then stopped running – the association would pay off down the road.—
Lori Riley,
Hartford Courant,
19 Apr. 2025
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Local 2 deserves not only the support of all other union members but also of Chicago residents.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
13 Apr. 2025
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The plant closures tore up communities, vaporizing what had been stable union jobs.—
Jessica Garrison,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Apr. 2025
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Last year, exports of Swiss watches to the region were valued at 3.8 billion francs, or $4.3 billion, an increase of 622 percent in 25 years, according to figures published by the Swiss watch federation.—
Nazanin Lankarani,
New York Times,
7 Apr. 2025
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The neighborhood federation then appealed again to the city council, which voted 5-0 on March 19 to support the appeal and overturn the zoning decision, with less than two weeks to go before the April 1 start of citywide trash collection under the new hauler.—
Frederick Melo,
Twin Cities,
2 Apr. 2025
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