How to Use war-game in a Sentence

war-game

1 of 2 verb

• Cruz is the marquee test case — Variety war-gamed this exact scenario when the rule changed.
  — Clayton Davis, Variety, 5 Sep. 2026
• Experts across Washington are already war-gaming potential scenarios in which one country gets the upper hand in AI.
  — Caitlin Babcock, Christian Science Monitor, 18 June 2026
• So, in June 2023, the Israelis war-gamed the kind of strike that would ultimately take out the ayatollah, according to Israeli sources.
  — CBS News, 5 Mar. 2026
• That Democratic effort includes war-gaming different potential election scenarios, working on litigation and crafting messaging, Morelle said.
  — Justin Papp, CNBC, 27 Feb. 2026
• Within 180 days, institutions must develop standardized assessments, including mandatory war-games and examinations, while establishing new Warfighter Chair positions for experienced military commanders.
  — Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Nov. 2026

war game

2 of 2 noun

• This is why war games do not predict the future but can shape it.
  — Jacquelyn Schneider, Foreign Affairs, 26 Dec. 2023
• Some members have deployed troops there for war games over the last year.
  — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 3 Apr. 2023
• But the media said that this would lead to war, the fire and fury and all these war games.
  — Fox News, 7 Mar. 2018
• Poland built up troops on its border with Belarus in response to the war games.
  — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 21 July 2023
• As time goes on, planners would nail down the war game scenario and other details.
  — Lolita C. Baldor, Fox News, 30 Aug. 2018
• The experts involved in the war game didn’t know the client were the Emiratis.
  — Aruna Viswanatha, WSJ, 2 Apr. 2018
• Some members have deployed troops there for war games over the past year, however.
  — Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, 4 Apr. 2023
• North Korea sees those planning drills as provocative war games.
  — Deirdre Shesgreen, USA TODAY, 5 Aug. 2019
• Games can include card games, war games, shooting games, racing, and one-on-one combat.
  — Ira Porter, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Sep. 2023
• By the end of the week, the experiment snowballs into an all-out war game.
  — Zita Ballinger Fletcher, Forbes.com, 17 May 2026
• The Zapad drills are the largest Russian war games in almost four years.
  — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 13 Sep. 2017
• That’s the gist of the headlines about a recent war game from a Washington think-tank.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 19 Jan. 2023
• Nine months of Trump taking the country down a bottomless pit of discord and war games.
  — Fabiola Santiago, miamiherald, 28 Sep. 2017
• The war game predicting the impacts of drone proliferation was held not much more than a year ago.
  — Jeremy Hsu, Discover Magazine, 1 Feb. 2017
• In the war game, troops treated drones like ammunition, using at least 20 each day.
  — Anna Mulrine Grobe, Christian Science Monitor, 31 July 2026
• The only way for liberals to win the right's radicalizing culture-war game is not to play.
  — Damon Linker, The Week, 1 Apr. 2022
• All of them describe the same dire scenarios, the same war games, the same cries of being woefully unprepared.
  — National Geographic, 8 Apr. 2020
• Those jumps come as Beijing has stepped up war games around the independent island and threatened to take control.
  — Ellen Mitchell, The Hill, 27 Apr. 2026
• Many recent war games in the Taiwan Strait imagined short conflicts, with the campaign ending in a few weeks.
  — Stephen Biddle, Foreign Affairs, 19 Mar. 2025
• More than 30 soldiers were affected during war games in the south of England over the weekend.
  — Matthew Robinson, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Nov. 2025
• Even aside from the war games, chips seem to have become a locus of secrecy and international intrigue.
  — Rakesh Kumar, Fortune, 21 Aug. 2026
• The drills this week, the sixth major round of war games since 2022, were the largest by area and the closest yet to Taiwan.
  — Yimou Lee, USA Today, 30 Dec. 2025
• Poland is upping defense spending and even neutral Sweden is holding war games of its own, its largest in 20 years.
  — Jonah Shepp, Daily Intelligencer, 18 Sep. 2017
• Later that year China staged a war game with the Tajik army, some of whose younger officers have been trained in Shanghai.
  — The Economist, 25 July 2019
• The war game included a variety of training, including anti-ship drills.
  — Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025
• There have been many war games conducted regarding the Middle East over the last several decades.
  — Tom Jurkowsky, Baltimore Sun, 25 Apr. 2026
• China has over the past five years increased its military pressure on the island, including by staging war games nearby.
  — Reuters, NBC news, 13 Sep. 2025
• The war games don’t generally start with Chinese marines clawing their way up a beachhead, Normandy style.
  — Micah McCartney, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Apr. 2026
• China’s eastern theater command says the air force, navy, and infantry will be involved in the war games, which will last until Friday.
  — Emily Feng, NPR, 23 May 2024
• The war game took place east of Japan's southwestern island of Okinawa on Thursday.
  — Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025