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as in peaceful
inclined to live in peace and to avoid war
a peaceable nation that has never had any interest in conquest
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as in nonviolent
not involving violence or force
trying to find a peaceable resolution
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Recent Examples of peaceable
If anything, the scale of the Second World War and the advent of the atom bomb made the quest for a peaceable international order more urgent than ever.
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Margaret MacMillan, The Atlantic, 30 Apr. 2025
Protesters were given cards with QR codes that linked to Yale University’s policies for peaceable assembly, such as keeping everyone physically safe, not blocking entrances and exits and no disruptions to the university’s operations.
—Brynn Gingras, CNN Money, 23 Apr. 2025
But the recent vitriol online may threaten the peaceable mood of the campus, particularly when Steve Glinick moves from Rhode Island to his summer home at Chautauqua, where his daughter, Emily Glinick, lives year-round.
—Christopher Maag, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2025
The founders plainly understood that the nation could not flourish, or even survive, without giving due respect to the laws that governed peaceable relations among sovereign states.
—Harold Hongju Koh, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2013
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Margaret MacMillan, The Atlantic, 30 Apr. 2025
Protesters were given cards with QR codes that linked to Yale University’s policies for peaceable assembly, such as keeping everyone physically safe, not blocking entrances and exits and no disruptions to the university’s operations.
—Brynn Gingras, CNN Money, 23 Apr. 2025
But the recent vitriol online may threaten the peaceable mood of the campus, particularly when Steve Glinick moves from Rhode Island to his summer home at Chautauqua, where his daughter, Emily Glinick, lives year-round.
—Christopher Maag, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2025
The founders plainly understood that the nation could not flourish, or even survive, without giving due respect to the laws that governed peaceable relations among sovereign states.
—Harold Hongju Koh, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2013
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for peaceable
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Wishing all of you a peaceful start to this new year.—
Brendan Morrow,
USA Today,
3 Sep. 2025
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The strike force waited in armored vehicles at a staging area in Kenscoff, where a once peaceful region has been under gang attacks since the beginning of the year.—
Jacqueline Charles,
Miami Herald,
2 Sep. 2025
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So, for example, [third-degree robbery], which is forcibly taking property from a person, which is violent, that's deemed as a nonviolent crime.—
Peter D'Abrosca,
FOXNews.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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Hamza Namira is an Egyptian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist whose music rose to prominence during the 25 January revolution in 2011, a day of nonviolent protests against increasing police brutality during the last few years of Hosni Mubarak’s presidency.—
Anne Gelhaus,
Mercury News,
31 Aug. 2025
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Courtesy: Apple Apple on Tuesday sent invites to the media and analysts for a launch event at its campus on September 9 at 10 A.M pacific time.—
Kif Leswing,
CNBC,
26 Aug. 2025
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My late grandfather, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, served in the pacific campaign.—
Simon Perry,
People.com,
19 Aug. 2025
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Not long ago such an utterance would have been political suicide in a country with a pacifist identity, but her rallies were packed, and party volunteers were out en masse, distributing flyers and buttonholing passersby.—
Jeff Kingston,
Time,
28 Aug. 2025
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In this aching, unorthodox historical drama, Davies tells the story of the pacifist poet and veteran Siegfried Sassoon, whose experiences fighting in the First World War forever transformed him.—
Samantha Bergeson,
IndieWire,
5 Aug. 2025
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“Peaceable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/peaceable. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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