peacetime

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Recent Examples of peacetime In 2012, more than 18,000 military personnel deployed around London’s Olympic sites, the largest peacetime operation in modern British history. Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2026 Codified in peacetime, the discipline of the battlefield became the discipline of character, bringing the same rigor to both the sword and the brush. Richard P. Weigand, Rolling Stone, 30 Jan. 2026 Howard, who had served as a second lieutenant with the Ninety‑Second Division, 366th Infantry in France during World War I, accused President Truman of using the Cold War to justify a sweeping peacetime expansion of America’s global military footprint. Literary Hub, 27 Jan. 2026 Over the past decade, Venezuela’s economy has contracted by roughly 80%, the largest peacetime collapse ever recorded in the Western Hemisphere. Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 3 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for peacetime
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peace
Noun
  • He is best known for his message of peace, his love of creation and his attention to the poor — teachings that strongly inspired Pope Francis, the only pope to name himself after the saint.
    Nicole Winfield, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2026
  • Israel withdrew from the Sinai Peninsula as part of a peace deal with Egypt following the 1973 Mideast war.
    CBS News, CBS News, 22 Feb. 2026

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“Peacetime.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/peacetime. Accessed 1 Mar. 2026.

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