1
: of or relating to the Baltic Sea or to the states of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia
2
: of or relating to a branch of the Indo-European language family containing Latvian, Lithuanian, and Old Prussian see Indo-European Languages Table
Examples of Baltic in a Sentence
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Thanks in large part to Poots’ work, the cave is still home to the largest bat colony in the Baltic states and is still considered one of the most important sites for bat conservation in the region.
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Corey Buhay, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 May 2024
The Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania were among the nations boycotting the ceremony.
—Armani Syed, TIME, 7 May 2024
Paris' decision suggests a potential split in the Western camp with several countries, including the Baltic states, vehemently opposed to giving Putin any form of legitimacy and potentially undermining Ukraine in its war with Russia after Moscow launched an invasion more than two years ago.
—Fox News, 6 May 2024
Governments and industry experts are sounding the alarm about the potential for major airline disasters due to increasing attacks against GPS systems in the Baltic region since the start of the war in Ukraine.
—Dhruv Mehrotra, WIRED, 4 May 2024
Countries on Europe’s eastern fringe, closest to Russia – such as Poland, Finland, and the Baltic states – have never needed convincing of the need to ratchet up defense investment.
—Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 May 2024
Newsweek reports that a recent uptick in GPS interference is due to more jammers being placed in Kaliningrad, a Russian exclave on the Baltic coast.
—Ryan Erik King / Jalopnik, Quartz, 23 Apr. 2024
In the past decade and a half, the Kremlin has threatened or run war games that simulate the use of nuclear weapons against Denmark, Poland, Sweden, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, the Baltic states, the European Union as a whole, and, of course, NATO and the United States.
—Alex Crowther, Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2024
The Dutch threatened to cut Britain off from trees from the Baltic area (the Rhine empties through Holland), but the British realized that New England contained vast, old growth forests of White Pine.
—Eugene Linden, TIME, 21 Apr. 2024
Corey Buhay, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 May 2024
The Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania were among the nations boycotting the ceremony.
—Armani Syed, TIME, 7 May 2024
Paris' decision suggests a potential split in the Western camp with several countries, including the Baltic states, vehemently opposed to giving Putin any form of legitimacy and potentially undermining Ukraine in its war with Russia after Moscow launched an invasion more than two years ago.
—Fox News, 6 May 2024
Governments and industry experts are sounding the alarm about the potential for major airline disasters due to increasing attacks against GPS systems in the Baltic region since the start of the war in Ukraine.
—Dhruv Mehrotra, WIRED, 4 May 2024
Countries on Europe’s eastern fringe, closest to Russia – such as Poland, Finland, and the Baltic states – have never needed convincing of the need to ratchet up defense investment.
—Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 May 2024
Newsweek reports that a recent uptick in GPS interference is due to more jammers being placed in Kaliningrad, a Russian exclave on the Baltic coast.
—Ryan Erik King / Jalopnik, Quartz, 23 Apr. 2024
In the past decade and a half, the Kremlin has threatened or run war games that simulate the use of nuclear weapons against Denmark, Poland, Sweden, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, the Baltic states, the European Union as a whole, and, of course, NATO and the United States.
—Alex Crowther, Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2024
The Dutch threatened to cut Britain off from trees from the Baltic area (the Rhine empties through Holland), but the British realized that New England contained vast, old growth forests of White Pine.
—Eugene Linden, TIME, 21 Apr. 2024
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“Baltic.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Baltic. Accessed 14 May. 2024.
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Baltic
adjective
Bal·tic
ˈbȯl-tik 
1
: of or relating to the Baltic Sea or to the states of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia
2
: of or relating to a branch of the Indo-European languages containing Latvian, Lithuanian, and Old Prussian
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