often attributive
: a period during which a war is in progress
rationing during wartime
Examples of wartime in a Sentence
Many goods were rationed during wartime.
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The look and feel owes an obvious debt to the beloved films of Studio Ghibli, which have offered some of the most iconic representations of wartime Japan and its long, fraught recovery period.
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Peter Debruge, Variety, 5 July 2025
Trump has also invoked military powers usually reserved for wartime, declaring that Biden-era immigration policies facilitated an invasion.
—Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 22 June 2025
Analysts discovered previous wartime maps and postwar records mislabeled the hill where Rowe and others died.
—Kairi Lowery, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 June 2025
Trump has reportedly curtailed that front-end review, leaving government lawyers to defend controversial claims of powers granted to the President only in extreme circumstances, like wartime.
—Eric Cortellessa, Time, 10 June 2025
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Peter Debruge, Variety, 5 July 2025
Trump has also invoked military powers usually reserved for wartime, declaring that Biden-era immigration policies facilitated an invasion.
—Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 22 June 2025
Analysts discovered previous wartime maps and postwar records mislabeled the hill where Rowe and others died.
—Kairi Lowery, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 June 2025
Trump has reportedly curtailed that front-end review, leaving government lawyers to defend controversial claims of powers granted to the President only in extreme circumstances, like wartime.
—Eric Cortellessa, Time, 10 June 2025
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“Wartime.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wartime. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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wartime
noun
war·time
ˈwȯ(ə)r-ˌtīm 
: a period when a war is going on
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