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China has pushed out and militarized a lot of the islands and islets in this region over the last 10 years or so.
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Joshua Keating, Vox, 26 Apr. 2024
Under the mandate, the Mexico-U.S. border wall would receive extra funding to get completed, and Trump's administration would be urged to militarize the border.
—Kyler Alvord, Peoplemag, 11 July 2024
The tensions are perhaps most evident along the DMZ, which is becoming increasingly militarized after the scrapping of the 2018 agreement by North Korea last November and South Korea last month.
—Jan Camenzind Broomby, NBC News, 6 July 2024
And it would be based on the demilitarization of Gaza and the guarantee that it could never again be militarized.
—David Makovsky, Washington Post, 19 June 2024
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Joshua Keating, Vox, 26 Apr. 2024
Under the mandate, the Mexico-U.S. border wall would receive extra funding to get completed, and Trump's administration would be urged to militarize the border.
—Kyler Alvord, Peoplemag, 11 July 2024
The tensions are perhaps most evident along the DMZ, which is becoming increasingly militarized after the scrapping of the 2018 agreement by North Korea last November and South Korea last month.
—Jan Camenzind Broomby, NBC News, 6 July 2024
And it would be based on the demilitarization of Gaza and the guarantee that it could never again be militarized.
—David Makovsky, Washington Post, 19 June 2024
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“Militarize.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/militarize. Accessed 30 Oct. 2024.
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