POLICE ACTION Synonyms: 29 Similar and Opposite Words

police action

noun

Definition of police action

as in civil war

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Noun

The United Nations Transitional Assistance Mission in Somalia closed on Saturday after more than three decades of successive missions that helped rebuild a country shattered by civil war.

— ABC News, ABC News, 2 Nov. 2026
But her denial of accusations that the UAE is fuelling the civil war in Sudan by supporting the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces has caused criticism.

— Chas Newkey-Burden, TheWeek, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of civil war

Noun

For a nation recovering from global conflict, the spectacle of two powerful women waging a cold war of words was irresistible.

— Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 27 Oct. 2026
The Saudis, then mired in a regional cold war with Iran, viewed the Houthis as an Iranian proxy force that threatened the kingdom’s borders.

— Kareem Fahim, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2026

Definition of cold war

Noun

But it was established in 1945 to avoid the staggering human and financial costs of another world war.

— Elizabeth Shackelford, Chicago Tribune, 2 Oct. 2026
Born in 1946, in a country recovering from a civil war and a world war, Rodríguez entered a life marked by poverty in the southern Spanish village of Añora.

— Laura Sharman, CNN Money, 22 Aug. 2026

Definition of world war

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In this scenario, which may already be coming to fruition, the meager hope is that the conflict transforms into simply a more limited war.

— Daniel Byman, Foreign Affairs, 5 Apr. 2024
Many scholars panned the book, believing its 34-year-old author had overestimated the nation’s ability to keep limited war limited.

— David E. Sanger, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2023

Definition of limited war

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