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Recent Examples of cold war
This ‘investment’ is all about the U.S. vs. China cold war, a theme driving the markets and pretty much everything else until further notice.
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Clem Chambers, Forbes.com, 14 July 2025
On Thursday’s episode of The Excerpt podcast: USA TODAY National Correspondent Trevor Hughes breaks down a part of the recent tax bill that adds new ships to the Coast Guard's fleet in the Northwest Passage, and the broader context in that region amid an ongoing cold war with China.
—Taylor Wilson, USA Today, 10 July 2025
The Arab-Iranian cold war has been a primary factor behind Israel’s increasing diplomatic coziness with its Arab neighbors, who have largely shelved generations of anger against the Jewish state in order to check Iranian power.
—Matt Bradley, NBC news, 24 June 2025
New York has a perverse way of amplifying a dispute over a half-acre lot into a protracted cold war.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 23 June 2025
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Clem Chambers, Forbes.com, 14 July 2025
On Thursday’s episode of The Excerpt podcast: USA TODAY National Correspondent Trevor Hughes breaks down a part of the recent tax bill that adds new ships to the Coast Guard's fleet in the Northwest Passage, and the broader context in that region amid an ongoing cold war with China.
—Taylor Wilson, USA Today, 10 July 2025
The Arab-Iranian cold war has been a primary factor behind Israel’s increasing diplomatic coziness with its Arab neighbors, who have largely shelved generations of anger against the Jewish state in order to check Iranian power.
—Matt Bradley, NBC news, 24 June 2025
New York has a perverse way of amplifying a dispute over a half-acre lot into a protracted cold war.
—Justin Davidson, Curbed, 23 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cold war
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Maybe not something drastic like a world war, slavery or the Holocaust, but there’s always shady s–t going on.—
Carl Lamarre,
Billboard,
3 Sep. 2025
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By the late 1930s, the United States was unprepared for the scale of airpower a world war would demand.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
26 Aug. 2025
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And just this past January, NPR also reported that nearly two dozen Colombian mercenaries died fighting in the Sudanese civil war.—
Rebecca Johns,
Miami Herald,
6 Sep. 2025
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After Lebanon’s civil war ended in 1990, Hezbollah expanded its influence across politics and society by remaining armed – unlike other militias, it was exempted from disarmament under the Taif Agreement due to its role in resisting Israeli occupation.—
Mostafa Salem,
CNN Money,
5 Sep. 2025
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In 1992, the government pressured Muslim clerics to declare a holy war against Nuba who opposed the regime.—
Nicolas Niarchos,
New Yorker,
19 May 2025
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While Tedesco calls for a holy war in response to the attack, Benitez takes a different approach, declaring that violence should not be met with more violence.—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
22 Apr. 2025
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In contrast, China has made targeted investments intended to give it an advantage in a quick, limited war, while keeping its overall defense spending relatively modest: Beijing’s defense spending has risen from five percent of U.S. levels in 1995 to 32 percent in 2017.—
Oriana Skylar Mastro,
Foreign Affairs,
20 May 2025
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Israel and Hezbollah have engaged in a limited war since last October, but Israeli forces have significantly escalated the scope of their attacks since the beginning of September in an attempt to force Hezbollah to stop its attacks on northern Israel.—
Mike Brest,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
30 Sep. 2024
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