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detente
noun as in passivity
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His astute detente diplomacy with the Soviet Union, trying to make the world a safer place, gets high marks.
By 1963, he had survived the Cuban Missile Crisis and was steering the superpowers towards detente.
The goal of the book is to "achieve detente" with your body.
If Obama's strategy is to dial back the blue/red civil war to a detente, Franken's is to escalate it to World War III.
The Ambassador quite appreciated that the purpose of the mission was to create a detente, as distinguished from an entente.
I'm glad she's not in Italy; it makes for relaxation—for a sort of moral detente.
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On this page you'll find 4 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to detente, such as: policy, pause, precaution, and easement.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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