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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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During China’s civil war, when the Red Army was relegated to Shaanxi’s mountains during the Yan’an period after the Long March, the party embraced its abundance of coal.—
Wesley Alexander Hill,
Forbes.com,
11 Aug. 2025
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Even the currency board that John Maynard Keynes installed in Archangel during Russia’s civil war (1918) worked without a glitch.—
Steve H. Hanke,
Fortune,
10 Aug. 2025
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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
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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
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In the 20th century, that meant the Great Depression and two world wars, as well as violence against people of color and all sorts of oppression.—
Michael Schneider,
Variety,
31 July 2025
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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
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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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