annexed
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In March 1938, when Kurt was a 1-year-old, Nazi Germany annexed Austria.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026
Not the kind that requires parcels of land to be annexed, such as Guantanamo Bay, in exchange for freedom.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 21, 2026
The US president and senior members of his administration have repeatedly raised the prospect of the semi-autonomous Danish territory becoming an annexed part of the United States.
From BBC • Jan. 5, 2026
When World War II ended, parts of eastern Poland were annexed by the Soviet Union.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025
On June 29, 1889, when Holmes’s building was half completed, Chicago annexed Englewood and soon afterward established a new police precinct, the Tenth, Second Division, at Sixty-third and Wentworth, seven blocks from Holmes’s pharmacy.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
