entente

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Recent Examples of entente Particularly important has been Hamas’s long-standing entente with Islamic Jihad. Leila Seurat, Foreign Affairs, 26 Aug. 2025 Central to this deal is the distinct entente between Putin and Bibi. Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024 Allegedly, Gilles Jacob, the Cannes president at the time, had to jump in to soothe both parties toward an entente. Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 10 Oct. 2024 That all sounds nice, but their group was too small—only about twenty-five thousand members at its peak—to effect such an entente. John Ganz, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024 See All Example Sentences for entente
Recent Examples of Synonyms for entente
Noun
  • European co-producers got more good news on Wednesday when Council of Europe Secretary General Alain Berset unveiled a historic co-production treaty designed to help boost funding for ambitious cross-border European series.
    Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Today all but one of the nonnuclear countries of the world – South Sudan – are signatories to the treaty.
    Debak Das, The Conversation, 27 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Trump has long disparaged NATO and sought to get other members of the alliance to boost their defense spending.
    Michael Loria, USA Today, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Earlier Monday, Turkey's defense ministry announced that the alliance's air defenses deployed in the eastern Mediterranean had, for a fourth time during the ongoing conflict in the Middle East, intercepted an Iranian missile that had entered its airspace.
    Lucia I Suarez Sang, CBS News, 31 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The union is not releasing details of the pact until after union members participate in a ratification vote, which will take place within the next few days.
    Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Brown told reporters the agreement with New Zealand didn’t affect his country’s other pacts.
    ABC News, ABC News, 2 Apr. 2026

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“Entente.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/entente. Accessed 4 Apr. 2026.

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