cold war

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Recent Examples of cold war Orson Welles’s 1955 cold war thriller Mr. Arkadin is the key to Wes Anderson’s psychological puzzle The Phoenician Scheme. Armond White, National Review, 30 May 2025 The outcome of the Geneva talks was a temporary de-escalation of a wide-ranging cold war that is in fact much bigger than trade. John Feng, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 May 2025 Nvidia is stuck in the middle, with Huang maintaining relationships with both sides in a deepening tech cold war. Kristina Partsinevelos,chris Eudaily, CNBC, 21 May 2025 That’s a remnant of a still ongoing cold war with Cuba. Erik Sherman, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for cold war
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Noun
  • Singer pointed to the massive casualties from world wars, numbers that the world has not seen in several of the most recent conflicts combined.
    Erin Mansfield, USA Today, 30 June 2025
  • As if two world wars—and countless smaller conflicts over the centuries—weren't enough for today's EU leaders.
    Dan Gooding Barney Henderson, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 June 2025
Noun
  • The two powers did find a new alignment in the Middle East when civil war broke out in Syria in 2011, with Tehran and Moscow aiding longtime Syrian President Bashar al-Assad against rebels and jihadis.
    Tom O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 July 2025
  • The civil war in Syria intensified in 2014 as the PKK was withdrawing its fighters from Turkey.
    Ragip Soylu, Time, 18 July 2025
Noun
  • Many Russians will come to believe that Russia is fighting a holy war against the West and NATO, and that Western sanctions are designed to make ordinary Russians suffer.
    Maxim Mironov, Foreign Affairs, 11 Mar. 2022
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • And as always, there’s no guarantee that a limited war would stay limited.
    Joshua Keating, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018

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