LIMITED WAR Synonyms: 29 Similar and Opposite Words

limited war

noun

Definition of limited war

as in cold war

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Recent Examples of limited war In this scenario, which may already be coming to fruition, the meager hope is that the conflict transforms into simply a more limited war. — Daniel Byman, Foreign Affairs, 5 Apr. 2024 Many scholars panned the book, believing its 34-year-old author had overestimated the nation’s ability to keep limited war limited. — David E. Sanger, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2023 And as always, there’s no guarantee that a limited war would stay limited. — Joshua Keating, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018

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Noun

During Wallace and Shakur’s own rift, Knight and Combs’ own cold war simmered and ran even hotter than many initially believed.

— Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 2 Sep. 2026
The report, based on in-depth interviews with single-family office principals and CIOs across North America, Europe, Asia and Latin America, captures a generational cold war playing out inside the world’s most secretive financial institutions.

— Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 1 June 2026

Definition of cold war

Noun

Born in 1946, in a country recovering from a civil war and a world war, Rodríguez entered a life marked by poverty in the southern Spanish village of Añora.

— Laura Sharman, CNN Money, 22 Aug. 2026
But for the most part, today’s athletes weren’t shaped by the Great Depression and a world war.

— Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of world war

Noun

The escalation shattered a four-year truce that had largely halted the fighting in the civil war.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 10 Sep. 2026
Getting back to politics to wrap up here, there seems to be a civil war brewing in the Democratic Party between the DSA crowd and the more traditional wing of the party.

— Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of civil war

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