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In both world wars, the key to victory was unbeatable stamina.
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Lawrence D. Freedman, Foreign Affairs, 14 Apr. 2025
Five years was serious business, the length of world wars and Soviet economic plans.
—Literary Hub, 13 June 2025
She was believed to have been the second-oldest nun after Sister André, a French nun who lived through two world wars and the 1918 influenza pandemic and survived Covid-19.
—Neil Vigdor, New York Times, 2 May 2025
The aftermath of two world wars shattered many of the old certainties.
—Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Forbes.com, 29 May 2025
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Lawrence D. Freedman, Foreign Affairs, 14 Apr. 2025
Five years was serious business, the length of world wars and Soviet economic plans.
—Literary Hub, 13 June 2025
She was believed to have been the second-oldest nun after Sister André, a French nun who lived through two world wars and the 1918 influenza pandemic and survived Covid-19.
—Neil Vigdor, New York Times, 2 May 2025
The aftermath of two world wars shattered many of the old certainties.
—Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Forbes.com, 29 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for world war
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 18 Jul. 2025.
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