ANNEXED Synonyms: 80 Similar and Opposite Words

annexed

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past tense of annex

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to join (something) to a mass, quantity, or number so as to bring about an overall increase plans to annex the supply room so as to make the classroom bigger

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Recent Examples of annexed The Russian Defense Ministry said Friday its air defenses overnight intercepted 644 Ukrainian drones over multiple Russian regions, illegally annexed Crimea and the Black Sea. — ABC News, 16 Oct. 2026 Russian air defenses overnight downed 902 Ukrainian drones over multiple Russian regions, illegally annexed Crimea and the waters of the Azov Sea, the Russian Defense Ministry said Wednesday. — Arkansas Online, 15 Oct. 2026 Lena Lyagushonkova presents the reader with a personal account of growing up in Luhansk, offering a better understanding of the Ukrainian industrial east, parts of which were annexed as early as 2014. — Literary Hub, 14 Oct. 2026 The government later annexed the portion of the city formerly controlled by Jordan and declared the entirety of Jerusalem as its national capital, a move still unrecognized by most countries. — Ilan Ben Zion, Christian Science Monitor, 14 Oct. 2026 Israel regards Jerusalem as its capital, while Britain and much of the international community do not recognize Israeli sovereignty over east Jerusalem, which Israel captured from Jordan in the 1967 Six-Day War and subsequently annexed. — Dov Lieber, CBS News, 8 Oct. 2026 About 5,000 new homes have been built in the area since it was annexed by the city in 2004. — Haley Parsley, Sacbee.com, 29 Sep. 2026 Among the areas voting are four Ukrainian regions illegally annexed by Russia but not fully under the Kremlin’s control. — Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 20 Sep. 2026 Voting is also taking place in Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula that Russia illegally annexed in 2014. — Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2026

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Jose Ramirez had two hits and Nathaniel Lowe added an RBI double in the second inning for the Guardians, who have won five of their last six playoff games since trailing the Chicago White Sox 2-0 in their AL division series.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 16 Oct. 2026
The Brewers took a 5-4 lead on Garrett Mitchell’s solo home run in the sixth inning and added an insurance run in the ninth on Hamilton’s bomb.

— Greg Rosenstein, NBC news, 16 Oct. 2026

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