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Those same technologies will be just as important in peacetime, helping rebuild a country that will long be scarred by mines.
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David Kirichenko, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Killing in war and peacetime The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights is one such treaty to which the United States is a party.
—Mary Ellen O'Connell, The Conversation, 4 Sep. 2025
Amid the fighting, death, and destruction in the east and unremitting nighttime attacks on cities, however, these peacetime atmospherics can seem jarring.
—Nataliya Gumenyuk, Foreign Affairs, 29 Aug. 2025
The Plowshare Project dreamt up idealistic, peacetime applications, such as reversing the course of rivers, triggering small earthquakes to prevent large ones from forming, flooding desserts, and, above all, snaking out a Central American canal with fewer vulnerabilities.
—Shoshi Parks, Popular Science, 14 Aug. 2025
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David Kirichenko, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Killing in war and peacetime The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights is one such treaty to which the United States is a party.
—Mary Ellen O'Connell, The Conversation, 4 Sep. 2025
Amid the fighting, death, and destruction in the east and unremitting nighttime attacks on cities, however, these peacetime atmospherics can seem jarring.
—Nataliya Gumenyuk, Foreign Affairs, 29 Aug. 2025
The Plowshare Project dreamt up idealistic, peacetime applications, such as reversing the course of rivers, triggering small earthquakes to prevent large ones from forming, flooding desserts, and, above all, snaking out a Central American canal with fewer vulnerabilities.
—Shoshi Parks, Popular Science, 14 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for peacetime
peace
Noun
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As New Yorkers showed today, Americans – especially young people and communities of color – are demanding leaders with vision who stand with the oppressed, not the powerful; who build peace and prosperity instead of profit from war and division.—
Dan Gooding,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Nov. 2025
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There will be a full moon in your sign, bringing personal revelations that could clash with your desire to keep the peace.—
Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
4 Nov. 2025
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“Peacetime.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/peacetime. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.
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