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Only 6,318 people had lived here when Radchaai forces annexed Shis'urna five years earlier, and of course the annexation had reduced that number.†
p. 11.2

annexed = took territory
If you'd asked me before you ...annexed us, I'd have said it was a fate worse than death.†
p. 18.9
And your estimate of the typical percentage of annexed populations who were made into ancillaries is excessive.†
p. 19.1 *
And I'm sure it's hard not to think of what your own ancestors went through when they were annexed.†
p. 64.4
Your ancestors were never annexed.†
p. 64.4
No. No, I think you're Ghaonish, and they were only annexed a few centuries ago, weren't they?†
p. 134.9
From my vantage the boundaries of Shis'urna's various nations and territories weren't visible, though on its night side the planet's cities glowed bright here and there, and webs of roads between them, where they'd been restored since the annexation.†
p. 9.9
Only 6,318 people had lived here when Radchaai forces annexed Shis'urna five years earlier, and of course the annexation had reduced that number.†
p. 11.2
The head priest had told her followers what they needed to do to survive the annexation, and for the most part those followers did indeed survive.†
p. 11.5
This wasn't as common as one might think—we always made it clear from the beginning that even breathing trouble during an annexation could mean death, and from the instant an annexation began we made demonstrations of just what that meant widely available, but there was always someone who couldn't resist trying us.†
p. 11.6
This wasn't as common as one might think—we always made it clear from the beginning that even breathing trouble during an annexation could mean death, and from the instant an annexation began we made demonstrations of just what that meant widely available, but there was always someone who couldn't resist trying us.†
p. 11.6
Usually a civilian police force was in place by the time an annexation was officially complete, something that often took fifty years or more.†
p. 11.9
This annexation was different— citizenship had been granted to the surviving Shis'urnans much earlier than normal.†
p. 11.9
So when the annexation of Shis'urna was officially complete, most of Justice of Toren Esk went back to the ship, but Lieutenant Awn stayed, and I stayed with her as the twenty-ancillary unit Justice of Toren One Esk.†
p. 12.1
Some of those passing were transplants, Radchaai assigned to jobs or given property here in Ors after the annexation.†
p. 14.1
Around them larger boats floated, and the big dredgers, now silent and still, that before the annexation had hauled up the stinking mud that lay beneath the water.†
p. 14.8
"Annexations are messy," said Lieutenant Awn.†
p. 17.1
The head priest winced slightly at the word annexation and I thought I saw Lieutenant Awn notice, but she continued.†
p. 17.1
But I've seen what your human troops did during what you call the annexation.†
p. 18.1
And this was the last annexation.†
p. 21.8
Ancillary units that only ever woke for annexations often wore nothing but a force shield generated by an implant in each body, rank on rank of featureless soldiers that might have been poured from mercury.†
p. 26.4
In a narrow, diamond-shaped park, by a black granite monument inscribed with the Five Right Actions, and the name of the Garseddai patron who had wished to impress them on the local residents, one of my lieutenants passed another and complained that this annexation had been disappointingly dull.†
p. 30.1
Jen Shinnan lived in the upper city, and before the annexation she had been the wealthiest person in Ors, in influence second only to the head priest of Ikkt.†
p. 44.9
From before the annexation, she meant.†
p. 47.9
They might have been put there before the annexation.†
p. 48.4
Did someone find a pre-annexation cache, and hide them there?†
p. 48.5
Indeed, not a few Shis'urnans had died in the initial stages of the annexation simply because they were in the way, and in the way could mean any number of things.†
p. 52.5
The niece, however, had lost her parents during the annexation.†
p. 57.3
All the Tanmind in the upper city did, and had done so before the annexation.†
p. 58.9
And now the unavoidable unpleasantness of the annexation is over, we want people to start realizing that being Radchaai will benefit them.†
p. 61.9
What happens during annexation—it's a difference of degree, not a difference of kind.†
p. 63.9
She'd arrived fresh out of training, seventeen years old, plunged straight into the tail end of an annexation.†
p. 66.6
That annexation had brought me a great deal of the sort of music I had liked best, when I had had more than one voice.†
p. 73.2
The guns within—long, sleek, and deadly—were the sort that had been carried by Tanmind troops before the annexation.†
p. 90.1
I had seen no few of those confiscated weapons—not I, One Esk, but I, Justice of Toren, whose thousands of ancillary troops had been on the planet during the annexation.†
p. 90.9
She resided in each of the thirteen provincial palaces, and was present at every annexation.†
p. 95.7
She was still in Shis'urna's system, some of her on the flagship of this annexation, Sword of Amaat, and some of her on Shis'urna Station.†
p. 95.8
Of course she was always present during annexations, but the sheer number of troops compared to the number of bodies the Lord of the Radch sent made it unlikely one would run into her by chance.†
p. 98.4
Even in the precarious months following the annexation, when supplies had been scarce and food expensive, they had managed to keep their families fed.†
p. 99.9
As much as they complained, they had come out of the annexation relatively comfortably.†
p. 100.1
They watched me close the temple doors, the segments posted there not uniformed, covered only with the silver of my own generated armor, and maybe it reminded them of the annexation.†
p. 116.6
And the weapons were all ones which had been confiscated during the annexation.†
p. 120.5
To noncitizens, who only ever see Radchaai in melodramatic entertainments, who know nothing of the Radch besides ancillaries and annexations and what they think of as brainwashing, such an order might be appalling, but hardly surprising.†
p. 121.6
It had been ninety-four years, two months, two weeks, and six days before, shortly after the annexation of Valskaay.†
p. 122.9
Of course (I thought but did not say), the various cousins who had served a year or so during this annexation or that and retired to take ascetic vows or paint tea sets hadn't done so because they had been unsteady.†
p. 132.4
They hadn't seen the annexation itself.†
p. 146.3
You know how annexations work.†
p. 147.7
Getting your feet on the ground during an annexation is the one sure way to increase your house's financial and social standing.†
p. 148.8
And this annexation is different, it's the last one.†
p. 149.2
Now annexations are a thing of the past, ancillary troop carriers are crowded with the useless daughters of prestigious houses, who can't be assigned to anything lower.†
p. 151.2

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(1) (annex as in: annexed the community)
to take territory and make it part of a larger territory -- such as a city making land outside of it a part of the city
(2) (annex as in: annex of the main building)
an addition that extends a main building

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to attach something -- especially to something larger or more important
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)

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