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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Biden saw an armistice as an important part of his legacy.
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German Lopez, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2025
The armistice offers a powerful example of how, even without a formal treaty or an elaborate system of security guarantees, a settlement can achieve its main goal if the great powers involved share an interest in making peace.
—G. John Ikenberry, Foreign Affairs, 12 Mar. 2025
The comment, however, followed some of Israel's most intensive strikes to date against dozens of military targets, including warships, aircraft, missile depots and chemical weapons stockpiles, and a ground incursion across the no man's land that lies beyond the 1974 Golan Heights armistice line.
—Russel Honoré, Newsweek, 5 Mar. 2025
For decades afterward and until the advent of internet telephony, Druze families divided by the armistice lines who wanted to communicate with one another did so via megaphone in an area that came to be known as Shouting Hill.
—Uriel Heilman, New York Daily News, 2 Mar. 2025
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German Lopez, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2025
The armistice offers a powerful example of how, even without a formal treaty or an elaborate system of security guarantees, a settlement can achieve its main goal if the great powers involved share an interest in making peace.
—G. John Ikenberry, Foreign Affairs, 12 Mar. 2025
The comment, however, followed some of Israel's most intensive strikes to date against dozens of military targets, including warships, aircraft, missile depots and chemical weapons stockpiles, and a ground incursion across the no man's land that lies beyond the 1974 Golan Heights armistice line.
—Russel Honoré, Newsweek, 5 Mar. 2025
For decades afterward and until the advent of internet telephony, Druze families divided by the armistice lines who wanted to communicate with one another did so via megaphone in an area that came to be known as Shouting Hill.
—Uriel Heilman, New York Daily News, 2 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for armistice
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But Easter Sunday coincided with a declaration of an unexpected, 30-hour truce by Russian President Vladimir Putin.—
Dominique Soguel,
Christian Science Monitor,
21 Apr. 2025
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Israel and Hezbollah remain publicly committed to a ceasefire agreement signed on November 27 but have repeatedly accused one another of violating their truce.—
Josh Hammer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Apr. 2025
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“Armistice.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/armistice. Accessed 5 May. 2025.
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