How to Use deterrence in a Sentence

deterrence

noun

• The author argues that deterrence is no longer the best way to prevent war.
• This breaks our entire sense of how war and deterrence might work.
  — Saahil Desai, The Atlantic, 27 Sep. 2021
• The hard question is how to achieve that kind of strong deterrence.
  — William J. Broad, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Jan. 2021
• The hard question is how to achieve that kind of strong deterrence.
  — New York Times, 24 Jan. 2021
• He can only be kept in check through strong deterrence.
  — Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
• Both deterrence and arms control are stronger when they are linked.
  — Michael Krepon, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2021
• His lack of rim deterrence has been roundly panned.
  — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 12 June 2026
• That’s why deterrence, in my view, works more often than not.
  — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 19 May 2024
• So this means that this deterrence is working.
  — Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 1 Dec. 2025
• Israeli prison should be a form of deterrence, and not a reward.
  — Benjamin Weinthal, Fox News, 20 Feb. 2023
• Not that the commission has done much on the deterrence front.
  — Jon Healey, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Mar. 2023
• So maybe that will be a form of deterrence that's largely been lost since this war began.
  — CBS News, 18 May 2022
• Still, a few more rebounds would help, as would the presence of some rim deterrence.
  — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 16 Apr. 2021
• Trump knows that deterrence requires more than a good defense.
  — Robert C. O’Brien, Foreign Affairs, 5 Nov. 2025
• He was blocked once, a deterrence that wasn’t enough to keep him from scoring on three other drives.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2022
• Now, deterrence is much more about who has the most capacity to make stuff.
  — Colin Demarest, Axios, 18 Dec. 2024
• The private sector can and should take an active role in this side of deterrence.
  — Jim Richberg, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
• And then two, to be able to defeat those adversaries in war should that deterrence fail.
  — CBS News, 15 Sep. 2022
• Critics say the problem is too much friend making and not enough deterrence.
  — Massimo Calabresi / Washington, TIME, 4 June 2024
• There may be some deterrence against this now, at least for Americans.
  — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 23 Nov. 2019
• For those flush with cash to last a lifetime, the staggering prices aren’t a deterrence.
  — Faris Mokhtar, Bloomberg.com, 23 June 2020
• And, of course, defense is a backstop against the failure of deterrence.
  — The Editors, National Review, 10 Oct. 2022
• Thus, the burden of deterrence and defense against it is not going to lighten in the near term.
  — Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Foreign Affairs, 18 Dec. 2024
• And the way to reestablish deterrence is to ignore the arms of the octopus and go straight for its head.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 19 Apr. 2024
• Now the next step for Tyler is to adjust to these latest attempts at deterrence.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 6 Jan. 2023
• The goal is not concealment, but deterrence.
  — Ascend Agency, Chicago Tribune, 12 Mar. 2026
• That was something that worked itself out through a pattern of deterrence and crisis and hard work.
  — CBS News, 8 Dec. 2021
• These kinds of actions fall below the threshold for war, but create fear and deterrence.
  — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 7 Dec. 2025
• Roberts says the goal is not simply punishment, but deterrence.
  — Spencer Wilson, CBS News, 26 May 2026
• The Ukraine war has convinced many in Europe that deterrence may not be enough.
  — Eliot A. Cohen, The Atlantic, 11 May 2026