Word Finder - war

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Organized, large-scale, armed conflict between countries or between national, ethnic, or other sizeable groups, usually involving the engagement of military forces.

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The war was largely between Sunni and Shia militants.

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A particular conflict of this kind.

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(by extension) Any conflict, or anything resembling a conflict.

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You look like you've been through the wars.

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Instruments of war.

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Armed forces.

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A particular card game for two players, notable for having its outcome predetermined by how the cards are dealt.

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To engage in conflict (may be followed by "with" to specify the foe).

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To carry on, as a contest; to wage.

The war is on.

He had a feeling the war was just starting to get interesting.

We got a war to fight and women waiting for us.

He hesitated, at war with himself.

Now, let's move on to the political factors that will cause war to cease.

You know they're at war with each other and playing games with us here on earth.

You can't fix a war that's been on for hundreds of thousands of years.

But in making the case that war can and will be ended, I have my work cut out for me.

As his adopted brothers in the war against evil, the two of them were his equals.

Back then before the war we used to take the train, later the bus.

World War II ushered in the age of nuclear weapons.

Its end led directly to the Cold War, which consumed inconceivable amounts of money and almost pushed the world to the brink of nuclear devastation.

We had world war three over it.

But all along, they believed they would ultimately prevail—and not just win the war, but also do something epic that would change the course of history for all time.

If there can be a day without war, then there can be two days without it.

I thought a daughter was just an excuse to declare war on everyone.

In this book, I maintain the future will be without ignorance, disease, hunger, poverty, and war, and I support those assertions with history, data, and reason.

After all, World War I was called The War to End War.

But I warn you, if you don't tell me that this means war, if you still try to defend the infamies and horrors perpetrated by that Antichrist--I really believe he is Antichrist--I will have nothing more to do with you and you are no longer my friend, no longer my 'faithful slave,' as you call yourself!

Alder's Bridge was re-named Brockville, after the first soldier fatality of World War Two!

She belonged with him, even if she was second rung to his war against bad guys or even if he was never able to devote himself to any one woman at all.

Instead of war in his background, there was peacemaking and diplomacy from the beginning.

He sang of war, and of bold rough deeds, and of love and sorrow.

It is an acknowledgement that war is completely a choice and our choice can be "no."

A long war, not with cranes, but with weeds, those Trojans who had sun and rain and dews on their side.

The two types of beings had last brought their war to the mortal realm during the time of the Schism, when they'd almost destroyed the universe.

There was the customary group of tourists with names like Bud and Ethel and Elmer and Clara— names not assigned to anyone born after World War II.

The only brother not to declare outright war on him, Kiki was a distant second to Andre in his tepid support of their black sheep of a young brother.

I am also a historian with a full understanding of how poverty, disease, ignorance, famine, and war have dominated life on this planet.

Then came World War I, which utilized these institutions and greatly expanded the size of the federal government.

The following chapter catalogs the difficulties inherent in trying to end war, which in the past brought misery and destruction and in the future could bring annihilation.

All right then, not the cavalry, but a marshaling of arguments and observations that will show how the end of war is inevitable, or nearly so.

After all, we have had war almost constantly throughout history and yet have still managed to progress.

Maybe war does serve some purpose.

Whatever the case in the past, war in the future can serve no useful purpose.

Such a house my father built after the Civil War, and when he married my mother they went to live in it.

Half the population of his planet had been decimated by famine and war.

He would do many more before the war was over.

Under what conditions can we claim victory in this war on disease?

A few years later, with the United States again at war, most of its top medical minds were engaged in the war effort.

Then war can become obsolete, as foreign to us as slavery and public hangings.

As Denzel Washington's character observed in the movie Crimson Tide, "In the nuclear world, the true enemy is war itself."

His youngest sister, Talal, stood in the doorway to his war quarters, her gaze hopeful.

In war, they were savage and cruel; for war always makes men so.

We love war movies.

After the war was over the family moved to Memphis, Tennessee.

Under the cloud of war, it is humanity hanging itself on a cross of iron.

Since war historically has interrupted the flow of consumer goods, and would do so even more in our present interconnected world, preserving our hard-earned possessions provides an additional disincentive to war.

When the Civil War broke out, he fought on the side of the South and became a brigadier-general.

The men spoke among themselves, swapping war stories and discussing the Tucson Sector's influx of vamps.