WORLD WARS Synonyms: 26 Similar and Opposite Words

world wars

noun

plural of world war

as in civil wars

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civil wars

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Annour and his family were once part of that wave, fleeing their home in Sudan in 2003, stepping around dead bodies and witnessing unimaginable horror, to escape one in a series of continuing civil wars that have given way to genocide.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026
The Tokugawa shogunate had brought a period of civil wars to an end, and during the long, uninterrupted peace under its iron rule there were fewer opportunities for men who had been trained to fight.

— Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026

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