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Whether the border had shifted with the river, rounding out the war’s annexationist work, nobody knew.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 21, 2014

Moreover, Fischer himself showed that there was widespread opposition to annexationist aims within Germany, and the opposition grew as the war went on.

From The Guardian • Jul. 13, 2013

The annexationist and filibustering schemes of the decade immediately preceding the War of Secession were prompted by two motives.

From The United States and Latin America by Latane, John Holladay

It had a more unfortunate effect, however, in leading public opinion in the United States to the belief for many years that a strong annexationist sentiment existed in Canada.

From The Canadian Dominion; a chronicle of our northern neighbor by Skelton, Oscar Douglas

We are not fighting for imperialist or annexationist ends, either for ourselves or for Germany, but we shall act together to the end for our defense, for our political existence and for our future.

From Current History: A Monthly Magazine of the New York Times, May 1918 Vol. VIII, Part I, No. 2 by Various