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Recent Examples of cold war
Per a source, that cold war continued through the offseason.
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Julia Poe,
Chicago Tribune,
7 Apr. 2026
And that means that if the hot war ends, but Iran ends up in another cold war, that would be as fatal to the regime as the continuation of the hot war.
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Isaac Chotiner,
New Yorker,
25 Mar. 2026
The theory posited that wars in the post-cold war era would be fought along religious divides, bringing the West and the Islamic states such as Iran to clash.
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Debidatta A. Mahapatra,
The Orlando Sentinel,
7 Mar. 2026
Swedish pop star Zara Larsson is apparently locked in a cold war with one user who keeps swapping out the photo on her page.
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Walden Green,
Pitchfork,
20 Feb. 2026
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Julia Poe,
Chicago Tribune,
7 Apr. 2026
And that means that if the hot war ends, but Iran ends up in another cold war, that would be as fatal to the regime as the continuation of the hot war.
—
Isaac Chotiner,
New Yorker,
25 Mar. 2026
The theory posited that wars in the post-cold war era would be fought along religious divides, bringing the West and the Islamic states such as Iran to clash.
—
Debidatta A. Mahapatra,
The Orlando Sentinel,
7 Mar. 2026
Swedish pop star Zara Larsson is apparently locked in a cold war with one user who keeps swapping out the photo on her page.
—
Walden Green,
Pitchfork,
20 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cold war
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Louis' boxing matches with Schmeling were viewed as pivotal international events in the context of the brewing world war with Nazi Germany.
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Horkheimer, amid the wreckage of world war, lost faith in progress; his dialectic negated one construct after another.
Noun
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So this was really a dispute among the justices about understanding how far the victors basically of the civil war wanted to go in enshrining ideas about broad US citizenship.
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Turkey denies that the deaths constituted genocide, saying the toll has been inflated and that those killed were victims of civil war and unrest.
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Commentary and opinions Bass clears the first hurdle, but if Pratt holds off Raman, the mayoral race could be a holy war, writes columnist Steve Lopez.
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By the conclusion of the second film, Paul had aligned with the native Fremen people of Arrakis to successfully defeat House Harkonnen and began a holy war against the Empire.
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In this scenario, which may already be coming to fruition, the meager hope is that the conflict transforms into simply a more limited war.
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Many scholars panned the book, believing its 34-year-old author had overestimated the nation’s ability to keep limited war limited.
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“Cold war.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cold%20war. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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