annex
Example Sentences
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The transition to “West Bank” occurred in 1950, when Jordan annexed the territory.
Adek and I attended the same university, and I found him outside the library, lecturing to a trio of enthralled young ladies about the dangers facing our neighbor Czechoslovakia now that Germany had annexed Austria.
From Literature
He insisted that the U.S. needed to annex Greenland for its own security and that of the wider Western Hemisphere and initially sought to pressure Denmark, the Arctic island’s sovereign authority, to sell it.
Denmark opposes U.S. annexation threats, stating there is no legal basis for the U.S. to annex its territory.
From Barron's
He also began his second term by repeatedly suggesting that he wanted to annex Canada as America’s 51st state.
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