alliance
noun
alliances
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pluralof alliance.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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State visits are a mix of pageantry and politics, with the carefully choreographed hospitality providing an opportunity for talks about important strategic alliances and to promote military and business links.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
After World War II, the U.S. increasingly relied on military alliances, overseas bases, trade and international institutions to project power.
From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2026
At the same time, former rivals like Anthropic and SpaceXAI are forming new alliances in an effort to secure more processing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026
Rays of hope are always welcome in this dark era, but there are at least three reasons to think the authors’ case—and the optimistic read on the future of American alliances writ large—has some holes.
From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2026
In two transformative decades between 1920 and 1940, the first two of these questions—i.e., variation and evolution—would be solved by unique alliances between geneticists, anatomists, cell biologists, statisticians, and mathematicians.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
