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armistice

[ahr-muh-stis] / ˈɑr mə stɪs /
NOUN
peace-establishing agreement
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It vowed to take "corresponding measures" for what it said was a violation of a decades-old armistice.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

More than 1 million land mines are estimated to be in the DMZ, the no-man’s-land created as part of the armistice halting active hostilities in the 1950-53 Korean War.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

It is a preliminary assessment from a joint investigation with the United Nations Command, which enforces the armistice that ended the active hostilities of the 1950-53 Korean War.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

Last week, South Korea's president proposed talks with its northern neighbour on officially ending the war between the two that is technically still active since an armistice was signed in 1953.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026

In October, Joe published a paper in which he wrote that negotiations with the government were not armistice talks in which we could dictate terms to a defeated enemy.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

By November the central powers had been forced to sign the armistices that brought the fighting to a close in the west.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

It was the first time a German leader had returned to the spot where both World War I and World War II armistices were concluded.

From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 2018

Stuffing his script into his pocket, Harry Truman added that he wanted to give the reporters a lecture on fake stories about cease-fires and armistices.

From Time Magazine Archive

So often had New Yorkers been fooled by false armistices that they were unable to believe the strike had ended until the now-unfamiliar dailies were there on the newsstands.

From Time Magazine Archive

This Council had a membership identical with that of the Supreme War Council, which controlled the armistices, their enforcement, and other military matters.

From The Peace Negotiations A Personal Narrative by Robert Lansing




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