truced; trucing
: to make a truce
: to end with a truce
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Noun
There's been an uneasy truce between her and her parents for the past several months.
both sides agreed to a 24-hour truce beginning at midnight on Christmas Eve
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CBS News, 27 Dec. 2025
However, in December 1944, without any such truce, some American troops located in Bastogne celebrated Christmas, while most of them fought against the German attack that day.
—Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 25 Dec. 2025
Gaza's Health Ministry says that over 400 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire since the truce.
—Julia Frankel The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 25 Dec. 2025
Thailand and Cambodia have engaged in daily exchanges of rockets and artillery along their 508-mile land border following the collapse of the truce, with fighting at multiple points stretching from forested regions near Laos to the coastal provinces of the Gulf of Thailand.
—Reuters, NBC news, 22 Dec. 2025
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Noun
The neighbors' long-standing border conflict reignited this month, shattering an earlier truce and killing at least 47 people, according to official counts.
—CBS News, 27 Dec. 2025
However, in December 1944, without any such truce, some American troops located in Bastogne celebrated Christmas, while most of them fought against the German attack that day.
—Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 25 Dec. 2025
Gaza's Health Ministry says that over 400 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire since the truce.
—Julia Frankel The Associated Press, Arkansas Online, 25 Dec. 2025
Thailand and Cambodia have engaged in daily exchanges of rockets and artillery along their 508-mile land border following the collapse of the truce, with fighting at multiple points stretching from forested regions near Laos to the coastal provinces of the Gulf of Thailand.
—Reuters, NBC news, 22 Dec. 2025
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“Truce.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/truce. Accessed 28 Dec. 2025.
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