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Pottinger and Gallagher’s nostalgia for the Cold War and their call for a new generation of cold warriors could be issued only by those who have no memory of how dangerous that war often was.
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Rush Doshi, Foreign Affairs, 30 May 2024
Not with his heritage as a cold warrior.
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David M. Shribman, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 Mar. 2021
Serving as premier from 1979 to 1990, when she was forced to resign by her own government, Thatcher was a strident cold warrior and a supporter of free markets, and especially close to President Ronald Reagan.
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Patrick Smith, NBC News, 6 Sep. 2022
And this first encounter of a lifelong cold warrior and a vigorous business like Russian drew the world's attention.
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Fox News, 10 June 2018
But the right, once rife with cold warriors, complained about the move (on Twitter), since the #TwitterLockout appeared to mostly affect the accounts of conservatives.
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Alexander Nazaryan, Newsweek, 15 Mar. 2018
In 1972, when China was desperately poor and largely insular, President Richard Nixon, a staunch cold warrior, traveled to Beijing for historic meetings with Mao Zedong, the father of the Communist revolution there.
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Bill Powell, Newsweek, 16 Oct. 2017
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First Known Use
1949, in the meaning defined above
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“Cold warrior.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cold%20warrior. Accessed 13 Feb. 2025.
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