as in truce
a temporary stopping of fighting
both sides in the conflict agreed to an armistice during the solemn holy days
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Recent Examples of armistice
The proposal has threatened to rip open a two-year-old armistice between environmental groups and the oil and gas industry, which had mutually agreed to pause their ballot and legislative conflicts.
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Nick Coltrain,
Denver Post,
8 May 2026
The South, which remains technically at war — the 1950-1953 Korean War ended with an armistice, not a peace treaty — with the North, isn’t standing by.
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Karishma Vaswani,
Twin Cities,
15 Mar. 2026
The Korean Peninsula has been divided ever since a brutal war between the North and South ended with an armistice agreement in 1953.
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Brad Lendon,
CNN Money,
14 Nov. 2025
Veterans Day in some form or another has existed since the first anniversary of the 1918 armistice.
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Kinsey Crowley,
USA Today,
11 Nov. 2025
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Nick Coltrain,
Denver Post,
8 May 2026
The South, which remains technically at war — the 1950-1953 Korean War ended with an armistice, not a peace treaty — with the North, isn’t standing by.
—
Karishma Vaswani,
Twin Cities,
15 Mar. 2026
The Korean Peninsula has been divided ever since a brutal war between the North and South ended with an armistice agreement in 1953.
—
Brad Lendon,
CNN Money,
14 Nov. 2025
Veterans Day in some form or another has existed since the first anniversary of the 1918 armistice.
—
Kinsey Crowley,
USA Today,
11 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for armistice
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As traffic slowly recovers and oil prices ease, Washington presses an interim peace deal with Tehran while Israeli-Hezbollah clashes in Lebanon threaten to widen the region’s fragile wartime truce.
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Growing numbers of ships — many of which had gone dark in order to quietly traverse the strait — are now navigating the waterway with their transponders on, and maritime insurers are slashing their rates, as confidence builds after last week’s interim truce between Washington and Tehran.
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Past Israel-Hezbollah ceasefires in Lebanon have often failed, and, in the run-up to the MOU, Israeli forces made their deepest incursions into Lebanon in the past quarter century.
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However, price bulls highlight a fragile US-Iran ceasefire and past IEA surplus forecasts that failed to depress prices.
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“Armistice.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/armistice. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.
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