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[pakt] / pækt /


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U.K., and Australia signed a maritime security pact known as AUKUS.

From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will travel Monday to Iceland to continue pressing US interests in the Arctic, two weeks after Washington sealed a security pact on Greenland.

From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026

This week, Pakistani Defense Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif said his country was “bound” by the pact to defend Saudi Arabia.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

The clashing versions add another twist to protracted, and often contentious, talks between Washington and Seoul over last year’s trade pact.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

It was a pact made in hell, said the book.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer

China and other governments need to agree on a plan similar to nuclear arms-control pacts meant to avoid disaster.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

Open-skies agreements deregulated airline competition on international routes starting in the 1990s, leading to much cheaper airfares and more international flights from the U.S., said Clifford Winston, a Brookings Institution economist who studied the pacts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

Japan has been gradually moving away from its post-World War II pacifist status -- increasing military spending, ramping up defence pacts and deploying missile launchers to its outer islands.

From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026

But these little small pacts start to snowball.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026

And there they are, instantly drawn into one of those pacts you’d be hard-pressed to break if you ever expect to go home and face your district.

From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins




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