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PREEMPTION
- A prior seizure or appropriation; a taking possession before others.
- Usage: Coverage of a speech by Vice President Dick Cheney on the Bush administration's expressed desire for "regime change" in Iraq, allegedly as a tactic to avoid a possible future attack by Saddam Hussein on the United States or American interests abroad using weapons of mass destruction.
Source: Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition.
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RAPPROCHEMENT
- Establishment of or state of having cordial relations.
- Usage: Report on North and South Korea re-linking their countries via reconstructed rail lines.
Source: Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition.
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