cold warrior

noun

: one that supports or is engaged in a cold war

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Pottinger and Gallagher’s nostalgia for the Cold War and their call for a new generation of cold warriors could be issued only by those who have no memory of how dangerous that war often was. Rush Doshi, Foreign Affairs, 30 May 2024 Serving as premier from 1979 to 1990, when she was forced to resign by her own government, Thatcher was a strident cold warrior and a supporter of free markets, and especially close to President Ronald Reagan. Patrick Smith, NBC News, 6 Sep. 2022 Not with his heritage as a cold warrior. David M. Shribman, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 Mar. 2021 And this first encounter of a lifelong cold warrior and a vigorous business like Russian drew the world's attention. Fox News, 10 June 2018 But the right, once rife with cold warriors, complained about the move (on Twitter), since the #TwitterLockout appeared to mostly affect the accounts of conservatives. Alexander Nazaryan, Newsweek, 15 Mar. 2018

Word History

First Known Use

1949, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of cold warrior was in 1949

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“Cold warrior.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cold%20warrior. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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