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Recent Examples of peacetime
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
Noun
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The president issued similar warnings since the peace deal went into effect last week.—
Rachel Wolf,
FOXNews.com,
21 Oct. 2025
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But both grew immensely from knowing one another, and their finding peace in the finale was one of the more moving moments of the entire series.—
Breanne L. Heldman,
Entertainment Weekly,
21 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Trump viewed the new rare earth controls as a violation of an earlier agreement that led to a trade detente between the U.S. and China, and threatened Beijing with a 100 percent tariff in retaliation.—
Robert Birsel,
MSNBC Newsweek,
16 Oct. 2025
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But that gesture toward detente seemed unlikely to stem the very real anger expressed by Tan and his colleagues.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 Oct. 2025
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“Peacetime.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/peacetime. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.
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