police action

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Noun
  • Nga Vương-Sandoval, the executive director of Refugees + Immigrants United Colorado, contends that the reasons why migrants leave their home countries today — political persecution and civil wars, gang violence, climate change, economic collapse and more — are myriad and nuanced.
    Megan Ulu-Lani Boyanton, Denver Post, 6 July 2025
  • In November 2015, as millions of people were fleeing Syria after a civil war broke out, then-Gov. Mike Pence banned them from resettling in Indiana after Syrians were implicated in terrorist attacks in Paris.
    Noe Padilla, IndyStar, 2 July 2025
Noun
  • New York has a perverse way of amplifying a dispute over a half-acre lot into a protracted cold war.
    Justin Davidson, Curbed, 23 June 2025
  • In addition, there are at least two notable cold wars, between the U.S. and China, and between the U.S. and Iran.
    John Dorfman, Forbes.com, 2 June 2025
Noun
  • In both world wars, the key to victory was unbeatable stamina.
    Lawrence D. Freedman, Foreign Affairs, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Five years was serious business, the length of world wars and Soviet economic plans.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 June 2025
Noun
  • Many Russians will come to believe that Russia is fighting a holy war against the West and NATO, and that Western sanctions are designed to make ordinary Russians suffer.
    Maxim Mironov, Foreign Affairs, 11 Mar. 2022
  • In 1992, the government pressured Muslim clerics to declare a holy war against Nuba who opposed the regime.
    Nicolas Niarchos, New Yorker, 19 May 2025
Noun
  • In contrast, China has made targeted investments intended to give it an advantage in a quick, limited war, while keeping its overall defense spending relatively modest: Beijing’s defense spending has risen from five percent of U.S. levels in 1995 to 32 percent in 2017.
    Oriana Skylar Mastro, Foreign Affairs, 20 May 2025
  • And as always, there’s no guarantee that a limited war would stay limited.
    Joshua Keating, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
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“Police action.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/police%20action. Accessed 10 Jul. 2025.

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