Verb The United States annexed Texas in 1845. The government planned to annex the islands. Noun The addition will be used as an annex to the library. We store our old files in the annex. an annex to the document
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Verb
An effort to force a special election to allow Taneytown residents to decide whether the city should annex the Sewell farm property from Carroll County fell 281 signatures short this week. Ethan Ehrenhaft, Baltimore Sun, 1 Sep. 2022 Vladimir Putin seems to be preparing to annex substantial portions of four Ukrainian regions—Donetsk and Luhansk in the east, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia in the south. William A. Galston, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2022 As Russia sets the stage to annex its Ukrainian conquests, there appears to be no end in sight. Grayson Quay, The Week, 4 Aug. 2022 Long-simmering differences over Taiwan have come into intense focus in the aftermath of Russia’s invasion and ongoing efforts to annex swaths of eastern Ukraine. Aamer Madhani, BostonGlobe.com, 27 July 2022 And the city of New Albany moved quickly to annex more than 1,600 acres of western Licking County to expand its existing industrial park, including the nearly 1,000 acres on which Intel plans to build. Faith Boirard, Molly Born, cleveland, 22 July 2022 The White House says Russia is plotting to annex more Ukrainian territory. Mark Murray, NBC News, 20 July 2022 Ukrainian and Western officials have said for months that Russia might be preparing to annex areas seized since the invasion, but those warnings have sharpened in recent days. Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2022 Russia’s move to fast-track citizenship in the Donbas region was indicative of larger plans to annex the region. Madeline Halpert, Forbes, 11 July 2022
Noun
The novel illustrates the hope and despair Frank felt during her time hiding from the Nazis inside a tiny annex. María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2022 The novel illustrates the hope and despair Frank felt during her time hiding from the Nazis inside a tiny annex. María Luisa Paúl, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Aug. 2022 She was eventually connected with Townsend and his wife, Helen, who offered them an annex in their spacious house near York, under a program that allowed British families to host Ukrainians fleeing the war for six months. Megan Specia, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Aug. 2022 An annex holds 8,000 wives and children of ISIS fighters from other countries.New York Times, 19 July 2022 While van den Bergh was able to leverage his position on the council to live freely in Amsterdam, the book claims, Anne and her family were holed up in an annex in the back of the factory where her dad had worked. Nick Maslow, PEOPLE.com, 17 Jan. 2022 Located on four acres overlooking the Hudson River in Upper Manhattan's Fort Tryon Park, this annex of the Metropolitan Museum of Art includes four cloisters and a group of reconstructed chapels and halls from medieval French monasteries and abbeys. Sam Dangremond, Town & Country, 6 July 2022 This annex will accommodate NHL-quality home and away team dressing rooms, training areas, equipment rooms, nutrition stations, a coaches work room, team storage and a fitness room. Alison Steinbach, The Arizona Republic, 4 Feb. 2022 Construction of the sportsbook annex to Wrigley Field remains on schedule. Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 8 Aug. 2022 See More
Word History
Etymology
Verb and Noun
Middle English, from Anglo-French annexer, from annexe attached, from Latin annexus, past participle of annectere to bind to, from ad- + nectere to bind