WORLD WAR Synonyms: 29 Similar and Opposite Words

world war

noun

Definition of world war

as in cold war

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Recent Examples of world war Horkheimer, amid the wreckage of world war, lost faith in progress; his dialectic negated one construct after another. — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 15 June 2026 What the fear-itself speech heralded, then, was a fresh formulation of the American project rather than its demise, reimagining it for the challenges of economic upheaval and, eventually, world war. — New York Times, 9 June 2026 Moscow is fighting a world war, even if Western countries won’t acknowledge it. — Melik Kaylan, Forbes.com, 25 May 2026 The effort aims to turn a base that served in two world wars into a West Coast cargo hub. — James Taylor, CBS News, 21 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for world war

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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

Supporters had hoped the freezing of the conflict since 2022 had allowed anti-Houthi forces to regroup, rearm, and emerge as a different fighting force than that which struggled to combat the group during the civil war from 2014-22.

— Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 11 Nov. 2026
Saturday's toll reflected the rapid worsening of Yemen's civil war, where a yearslong truce fell apart over the summer.

— AHMED HATEM, Arkansas Online, 8 Nov. 2026

Definition of civil war

Noun

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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