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Recent Examples of holy war
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.
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Randall Colburn, EW.com, 27 Feb. 2025
But as Paul starts to meet the prophetic expectations of his most fervent followers, there are signs of a holy war that could have terrible consequences.
—Scott Tobias, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
Absolute Dominion takes place In the year 2063 AD, when the world faces catastrophe as zealots and extremists wage a global holy war in the name of spiritual superiority.
—Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 13 Jan. 2025
If anything, Russia’s rhetoric about the war has become more annihilationist, invoking the Russian Orthodox Church and suggesting that the conflict is something like a holy war, with existential consequences.
—Andriy Zagorodnyuk, Foreign Affairs, 21 May 2024
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Randall Colburn, EW.com, 27 Feb. 2025
But as Paul starts to meet the prophetic expectations of his most fervent followers, there are signs of a holy war that could have terrible consequences.
—Scott Tobias, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
Absolute Dominion takes place In the year 2063 AD, when the world faces catastrophe as zealots and extremists wage a global holy war in the name of spiritual superiority.
—Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 13 Jan. 2025
If anything, Russia’s rhetoric about the war has become more annihilationist, invoking the Russian Orthodox Church and suggesting that the conflict is something like a holy war, with existential consequences.
—Andriy Zagorodnyuk, Foreign Affairs, 21 May 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for holy war
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Nga Vương-Sandoval, the executive director of Refugees + Immigrants United Colorado, contends that the reasons why migrants leave their home countries today — political persecution and civil wars, gang violence, climate change, economic collapse and more — are myriad and nuanced.—
Megan Ulu-Lani Boyanton,
Denver Post,
6 July 2025
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In November 2015, as millions of people were fleeing Syria after a civil war broke out, then-Gov. Mike Pence banned them from resettling in Indiana after Syrians were implicated in terrorist attacks in Paris.—
Noe Padilla,
IndyStar,
2 July 2025
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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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In addition, there are at least two notable cold wars, between the U.S. and China, and between the U.S. and Iran.—
John Dorfman,
Forbes.com,
2 June 2025
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Cortes: America quite literally saved the world three times in the 20th century: in two world wars, and then in the Cold War.—
Newsweek Staff,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 July 2025
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After two world wars and years of housing business tenants, the site transitioned to a Marion County Jail in the mid-1990s.—
Alysa Guffey,
IndyStar,
2 July 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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And as always, there’s no guarantee that a limited war would stay limited.—
Joshua Keating,
Vox,
7 Dec. 2018
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“Holy war.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/holy%20war. Accessed 12 Jul. 2025.
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