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Per a source, that cold war continued through the offseason.
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Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 7 Apr. 2026
And that means that if the hot war ends, but Iran ends up in another cold war, that would be as fatal to the regime as the continuation of the hot war.
—Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2026
The theory posited that wars in the post-cold war era would be fought along religious divides, bringing the West and the Islamic states such as Iran to clash.
—Debidatta A. Mahapatra, The Orlando Sentinel, 7 Mar. 2026
Swedish pop star Zara Larsson is apparently locked in a cold war with one user who keeps swapping out the photo on her page.
—Walden Green, Pitchfork, 20 Feb. 2026
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Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 7 Apr. 2026
And that means that if the hot war ends, but Iran ends up in another cold war, that would be as fatal to the regime as the continuation of the hot war.
—Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2026
The theory posited that wars in the post-cold war era would be fought along religious divides, bringing the West and the Islamic states such as Iran to clash.
—Debidatta A. Mahapatra, The Orlando Sentinel, 7 Mar. 2026
Swedish pop star Zara Larsson is apparently locked in a cold war with one user who keeps swapping out the photo on her page.
—Walden Green, Pitchfork, 20 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cold war
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Horkheimer, amid the wreckage of world war, lost faith in progress; his dialectic negated one construct after another.—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
15 June 2026
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What the fear-itself speech heralded, then, was a fresh formulation of the American project rather than its demise, reimagining it for the challenges of economic upheaval and, eventually, world war.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
9 June 2026
Noun
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Season three is cashing in on all the teasing and finally giving us the Dance of the Dragons, the Targaryen civil war that brings Westeros to its knees, in all its bloody and fiery glory.—
Nic Juarez,
Vulture,
15 June 2026
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The sentence handed down by the District Court of The Hague is the latest against Syrian suspects in different countries since Assad was toppled from power in a decisive rebel offensive in December 2024 that followed years of grinding civil war.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
15 June 2026
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Commentary and opinions Bass clears the first hurdle, but if Pratt holds off Raman, the mayoral race could be a holy war, writes columnist Steve Lopez.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
4 June 2026
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By the conclusion of the second film, Paul had aligned with the native Fremen people of Arrakis to successfully defeat House Harkonnen and began a holy war against the Empire.—
Brian Welk,
IndieWire,
14 Apr. 2026
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In contrast, China has made targeted investments intended to give it an advantage in a quick, limited war, while keeping its overall defense spending relatively modest: Beijing’s defense spending has risen from five percent of U.S. levels in 1995 to 32 percent in 2017.—
Oriana Skylar Mastro,
Foreign Affairs,
20 May 2025
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Israel and Hezbollah have engaged in a limited war since last October, but Israeli forces have significantly escalated the scope of their attacks since the beginning of September in an attempt to force Hezbollah to stop its attacks on northern Israel.—
Mike Brest,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
30 Sep. 2024
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