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He has increased Germany's size from 180,976 square miles to 323,360 square miles, plus 290,000 more in occupied but unannexed lands.

From Time Magazine Archive

A Texas unannexed bill for a large increase in ships was passed.

From A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) by Emerson, Edwin

On that particular night he had a long drive before him, for he was to lecture at Newburyport, or Nantasket, or Nantucket, or some other then unannexed suburb of Boston.

From Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes by Brown, E. E.

Doubt must precede every deeper assurance; for uncertainties are what we first see when we look into a region hitherto unknown, unexplored, unannexed.

From Unspoken Sermons Series I., II., and II. by MacDonald, George

After 1871 Germany, and presently France and later Italy, began to look for unannexed raw-material areas, or for Oriental countries capable of profitable modernization.

From A Short History of the World by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)