as in armistice
a temporary stopping of fighting
both sides agreed to a 24-hour truce beginning at midnight on Christmas Eve
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Recent Examples of truce
This deeply unstable truce breaks in episode seven during the bachelor and bachelorette parties.
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Bethy Squires, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2025
In a headline-grabbing move earlier this year, Kwek took his son Sherman Kwek, CEO of flagship City Developments, to court for appointing new directors without following due process but two weeks later called a truce and withdrew the lawsuit.
—Jane Ho, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
The nationalists and communists fell into an uneasy truce with the creation of the second united front in 1937.
—Meredith Oyen, The Conversation, 2 Sep. 2025
Although China's Nationalists and Communists had been engaged in a civil war for control of the country, Japan's invasion pushed both sides into an uneasy truce that lasted until Japan was defeated.
—Jan Camenzind Broomby, NPR, 2 Sep. 2025
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Bethy Squires, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2025
In a headline-grabbing move earlier this year, Kwek took his son Sherman Kwek, CEO of flagship City Developments, to court for appointing new directors without following due process but two weeks later called a truce and withdrew the lawsuit.
—Jane Ho, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
The nationalists and communists fell into an uneasy truce with the creation of the second united front in 1937.
—Meredith Oyen, The Conversation, 2 Sep. 2025
Although China's Nationalists and Communists had been engaged in a civil war for control of the country, Japan's invasion pushed both sides into an uneasy truce that lasted until Japan was defeated.
—Jan Camenzind Broomby, NPR, 2 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for truce
Noun
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South Korea and North Korea remain technically at war after an armistice agreement brought the Korean War to a close in 1953.—
Ellie Cook,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 Aug. 2025
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Ukraine could, for example, withdraw its troops from particular areas without making any formal territorial concessions, creating an unrecognized but indefinite line of separation, like the one that followed the Korean armistice, in 1953, or the division of Berlin, during the Cold War.—
Joshua Yaffa,
New Yorker,
22 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Hamas leadership and its primary negotiators have been based in Doha for years while trying to get a ceasefire and hostage release deal.—
Nadine El-Bawab,
ABC News,
10 Sep. 2025
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Israel's attack in Qatar, which has been hosting Gaza ceasefire talks, drew a rebuke from the White House and was condemned by countries around the world.—
Francesca Chambers,
USA Today,
10 Sep. 2025
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“Truce.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/truce. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.
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