World War I

noun

: the war that was fought mainly in Europe from 1914 to 1918

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Roan performs Friday and Saturday at Museum and Memorial Park on the grounds of the National World War I Museum and Memorial. Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 3 Oct. 2025 Conservatives celebrate the past and believe the benefits of immigration ended after World War I and the advantages of free trade ended after World War II. Richard Stengel, Time, 1 Oct. 2025 Truth is, Leonardo DiCaprio’s Ernest is this epic film’s brutally flawed main character, a seemingly nice-enough nobody who returns from World War I, falls in love with and marries Gladstone’s Mollie, and consequently helps to orchestrate her and her family’s destruction. Tim Grierson, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2025 These World War I ships were deliberately burned and sunk in the 1920s. Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 26 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for World War I

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