invasion
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And it will be cast globally, to figures doing what is necessary to save their country from invasion.
From Slate ● Oct. 17, 2026
A young man goes to the movies and watches a newsreel about Operation Torch, the Allied invasion of North Africa in 1942, when the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
Dr Kurr, from Bangor University, said that scientists were just starting to realise that "these wonderful animals can smell changes in water that signal a marine invasion which otherwise might have gone unnoticed".
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
"Understanding the size of Indigenous populations in Australia before European invasion in 1788 is essential to truth-telling and reconciliation," says Professor Bradshaw.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026
These may have been the base from which Homo sapiens launched its first transoceanic enterprise: the invasion of Australia.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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In both of these misguided invasions, Americans convinced themselves that Canadians did not exist, at least not as a people or a nation with a shared collective identity.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026
Castro is remembered by supporters as having guided Cuba through multiple crises -- US-backed invasions, embargoes, assassination plots and the intense hardship caused by the collapse of Cuba's main ally and benefactor, the Soviet Union.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
Kagan insists that the Fourth Amendment cannot be defeated by slicing invasions of privacy into pieces small enough to appear constitutionally insignificant.
From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2026
Communities in Texas, Oklahoma, Georgia and elsewhere have wrestled with invasions in recent years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026
Kamehameha thereupon prepared invasions of the last independent Hawaiian island, Kauai, whose chief finally reached a negotiated settlement with him, completing the archipelago’s unification.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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