sanctioned
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Sanctioned containerships Rayen and Daisy sailed in through Hormuz on Tuesday and were traveling toward the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas, Lloyd’s List said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026
Sanctioned by Washington since 2019, Venezuela sits on about a fifth of the world's oil reserves and was once a major crude supplier to the United States.
From Barron's • Jan. 15, 2026
Sanctioned countries offer their oil at steep discounts so that companies or nations are willing to take the risk of buying it whilst applying tricks to disguise its origin.
From BBC • Dec. 17, 2025
Sanctioned, interrogated, smeared and threatened with violence: Is this a suspected terrorist, or perhaps a rogue politico?
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2023
When that great struggle held the world in awe, And all the nations blanched at what they saw, Did Sanctioned Slavery bow its conquered head That this unsanctioned crime might rise instead?
From The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar by Howells, William Dean
Vocabulary lists containing sanctioned
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
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