world war

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Recent Examples of world war It was deployed during the War of 1812 and both world wars. Niall Stanage, The Hill, 17 Mar. 2025 That term was popularized between the two world wars and served as the name of the powerful populist movement to preserve U.S. isolationism and promote our diplomatic distance from the rest of the world. Arthur I. Cyr, Chicago Tribune, 20 May 2025 This principle has remained intact through two world wars, civil rights struggles, and modern immigration waves. Andy J. Semotiuk, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025 In retrospect, this may be one of the most significant insights of his pontificate—the frank recognition that the number and gravity of violent conflicts constitute a world war that has largely gone unrecognized. Paul Elie, New Yorker, 9 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for world war
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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
  • 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
  • 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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“World war.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/world%20war. Accessed 10 Jul. 2025.

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