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That conflict had recently escalated, with pro-Russian separatists seizing key towns in the Donetsk and Luhansk after Russia illegally annexed the peninsula of Crimea in February 2014.—
Anna Batta,
The Conversation,
20 Aug. 2025 -
Russia seized Ukraine's Crimean peninsula in 2014 and backed separatists in eastern Ukraine, a move that was widely condemned by the international community.—
Lim Hui Jie,
CNBC,
18 Aug. 2025
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Citing government and security sources, the broadcaster, DR, said three Americans close to the president had been compiling names of Greenlandic citizens who supported Trump’s plans to take over the island, and who might be willing to join a secessionist movement.—
Richard Hall,
Time,
27 Aug. 2025
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One of the American men involved has made a list of Trump supporters in Greenland, with the goal of later recruiting them to establish a secessionist movement on the island, according to the broadcaster.—
Henrik Pettersson,
CNN Money,
27 Aug. 2025
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On the one side, bell bottoms became the signature look of 1970s radicals.—
Stephen Mihm,
Twin Cities,
22 Aug. 2025
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Some of these technologies generate chemicals such as ozone, formaldehyde and hydroxyl radicals to kill microbes – substances that can potentially harm people if inhaled.—
Amiran Baduashvili,
The Conversation,
20 Aug. 2025
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“Separationist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/separationist. Accessed 3 Sep. 2025.
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