police action

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Noun
  • Or how both my parents survived civil war and the Chinese Cultural Revolution.
    Esther Lin, Time, 12 June 2025
  • That, and staying sane and alive in the first U.S. civil war.
    Teddy Wayne June 10, Literary Hub, 10 June 2025
Noun
  • Orson Welles’s 1955 cold war thriller Mr. Arkadin is the key to Wes Anderson’s psychological puzzle The Phoenician Scheme.
    Armond White, National Review, 30 May 2025
  • The outcome of the Geneva talks was a temporary de-escalation of a wide-ranging cold war that is in fact much bigger than trade.
    John Feng, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 May 2025
Noun
  • The aftermath of two world wars shattered many of the old certainties.
    Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Forbes.com, 29 May 2025
  • It was deployed during the War of 1812 and both world wars.
    Niall Stanage, The Hill, 17 Mar. 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 17 Jun. 2025.

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