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Recent Examples of belligerency Contrary to former President Joe Biden, our co-belligerency is not to make Ukraine safe for democracy. Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 13 Feb. 2025 Congress has given away its power to declare war to the president, handing over the ability to take the nation from a state of peace to a state of belligerency or co-belligerency. Armstrong Williams, Baltimore Sun, 7 July 2024 Credibility requires consistency, not belligerency. Keren Yarhi-Milo, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2017 Furthermore, pursuant to Additional Protocol I, Article 47(1), mercenaries do not qualify as combatants, and as such, cannot benefit from the privilege of belligerency. Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes, 12 June 2022 The formal and informal Democratic establishment convinced itself that the country had been repelled by Trump’s belligerency in his debate with Biden. Conrad Black, National Review, 14 Oct. 2020 So all you're left with was this over the top belligerency of the president, which didn't go over well with people. NBC News, 4 Oct. 2020 What Flake doesn’t get is that Trump’s culture war belligerency is the first time many GOP voters feel the party is doing something for them. Jonathan Tamari, Philly.com, 27 Oct. 2017 This is also the right time to demonstrate to North Korea that we will not be intimidated or blackmailed by Pyongyang's belligerency. chicagotribune.com, 6 Sep. 2017
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Noun
  • Omar Havana/Getty Images Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has formally approved the creation of a special international tribunal to prosecute senior Russian officials for the crime of aggression tied to the 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
    Amanda Castro Hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 June 2025
  • The new body will deal with the crime of aggression, specifically regarding the use of armed force by one state against another.
    Sophie Tanno, CNN Money, 26 June 2025
Noun
  • In our experience we were met with outright hostility for our Christian beliefs.
    BJ, Denver Post, 3 July 2025
  • But these weaknesses stem largely from underfunding and political hostility – not from any intrinsic flaw in the model.
    Sumit Agarwal, The Conversation, 3 July 2025

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“Belligerency.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/belligerency. Accessed 9 Jul. 2025.

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