deterrence

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Recent Examples of deterrence The Russian drills also come just over a week after NATO held its own nuclear deterrence exercise called Steadfast Noon. Anna Chernova, CNN Money, 22 Oct. 2025 The United States has staged a war game with its Pacific and NATO allies in waters near China as Washington seeks to strengthen its deterrence against Beijing's regional activities. Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025 Modern warfare increasingly depends on neuroscientific findings to help determine the best ways to train soldiers, defend populations against disinformation, and manage deterrence strategies. Big Think, 18 Oct. 2025 That morphed following its devastating 1980s war with Iraq into more of an effort to provide a level of deterrence as Arab nations around it purchased sophisticated American bombs, warplanes and tanks that Tehran couldn’t access due to sanctions. Jason Ma, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for deterrence
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Noun
  • The gradual combination of these skills helps students avoid most crashes in the long term, leading to less discouragement and frustration.
    Maria Williams, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025
  • So feelings of self-doubt, frustration, and discouragement start to kick in.
    Sho Dewan, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • It's also recommended to teach your children essential information like full name spellings, birthdates, addresses and any instructions on what to do in case of an emergency, according to the organization's safety plan checklist.
    Alyssa N. Salcedo, jsonline.com, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Use insecticidal soap, neem or horticultural oils, or Spinosad, and follow label instructions.
    Arricca Elin SanSone, Southern Living, 27 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • But as history keeps telling us, from Afghanistan outwards to the West and East, the suppression of women isn’t going away any time soon.
    Damon Wise, Deadline, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Bolton’s team is likely to seek dismissal or suppression of materials, arguing political motivation and lack of intent, while the Justice Department pushes to protect classified details.
    Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • If pushback fails now, whether through courts, through Congress or through public protest, the bulwark that exists between national security and political repression may collapse entirely.
    Jason M. Blazakis, Mercury News, 18 Oct. 2025
  • History’s rhythm is steady—accusation, repression, regret.
    Alexis Coe, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The research team also claims that the method holds the potential to significantly reduce battery charging times while improving specific energy and operational lifespan.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2025
  • It was started to rival Tesla's home energy systems and provide battery packs, EV chargers and software to help customers optimize charging and ride out electric grid disruptions.
    Michael Wayland, CNBC, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The company’s Amazon Web Services will launch a real-time bidding service for ad buyers and sellers called AWS RTB Fabric, with a goal of helping marketers and media outlets buy and sell digital commercial inventory through split-second auctions.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 23 Oct. 2025
  • The promise of artificial intelligence is that the desktop will disappear entirely and users will only interact with a chatbot or a voice that will carry out their bidding through plain language alone, morphing the entire computer into an anthropomorphized character.
    Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Others rely on voice dictation to record shower thoughts and capture dreams each morning in new chat threads.
    Gelila, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • At the time, Apple said only a small portion of data was shared to help improve Siri and dictation.
    Julia Gomez, USA Today, 1 July 2025
Noun
  • When the lines of a CME’s magnetic field and those of the Earth’s magnetic field are pointed in the opposite directions, the CME can unite with the Earth’s magnetosphere and fill it with vast quantities of solar energy.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The contract was awarded at a time when the world was racing to field missiles that could change direction while traveling at several times the speed of sound.
    Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 27 Oct. 2025

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“Deterrence.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/deterrence. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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