Example Sentences

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Posting on X, formerly Twitter, Former UK Chancellor George Osborne praised Schäuble as "a great man, who had unified his country and was the last of the post-war Germans".

From BBC • Dec. 27, 2023

The protest movement, led by women and young people, had unified a discontented nation across socioeconomic lines, geographic regions and ethnicities.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 12, 2022

In New York’s Democratic primary for lieutenant governor, one goal had unified two outsider candidates, Diana Reyna and Ana Maria Archila: vying to be the first Latino elected to statewide office.

From New York Times • May 21, 2022

By the time Germany had unified in 1871, the world had already been colonized by other European powers.

From Slate • Mar. 8, 2017

In a meeting with Le Duc Tho, Kissinger quipped that he had accomplished the impossible: he had unified Vietnam.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin