peace treaty

noun

: an agreement to stop fighting a war

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Her story transforms a picture ostensibly about men negotiating a peace treaty into a meditation on the endemic violence that shaped so many American lives. Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Apr. 2025 In March, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Katz warned Egypt against breaching its 1979 peace treaty with Israel, which places limits on the military presence the Egyptians are allowed in the region. John W. Dean, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 Apr. 2025 Richard Nixon couldn’t make peace between Syria and Israel in 1974; Bill Clinton managed to get Israel and Jordan to sign a historic peace treaty in 1994 but fell short of his far more ambitious goal to establish a more comprehensive Israeli-Palestinian peace deal. Timothy Naftali, Foreign Affairs, 2 May 2025 Kellogg added that Russia had not yet delivered a memorandum on working with Ukraine to draft a framework for a ceasefire and a potential peace treaty. Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 27 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for peace treaty

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“Peace treaty.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/peace%20treaty. Accessed 9 Jul. 2025.

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