cold war

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Recent Examples of cold war Nvidia is stuck in the middle, with Huang maintaining relationships with both sides in a deepening tech cold war. Kristina Partsinevelos,chris Eudaily, CNBC, 21 May 2025 That’s a remnant of a still ongoing cold war with Cuba. Erik Sherman, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025 If there is a new cold war, then the West may also be entering a new era of containment. Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 23 Jan. 2025 Photograph: Simon Hill; Getty Images The main battleground of flagship smartphones for several years has been photography, but the camera cold war has led to increasingly large camera modules. Simon Hill, WIRED, 3 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for cold war
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Noun
  • Cortes: America quite literally saved the world three times in the 20th century: in two world wars, and then in the Cold War.
    Newsweek Staff, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 July 2025
  • After two world wars and years of housing business tenants, the site transitioned to a Marion County Jail in the mid-1990s.
    Alysa Guffey, IndyStar, 2 July 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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