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war

Definition for war

noun as in armed conflict

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European immigration officials had repeatedly ruled that their home city of Basra, in southern Iraq, was no longer a war zone and their requests for asylum were all declined.

From BBC

"We have significantly restricted Russia's oil industry, and this significantly restricts the war."

From BBC

Hegseth’s deep message to the troops keeping America safe: “It all starts with physical fitness and appearance. If the secretary of war can do regular, hard PT, so can every member of our joint force.”

Chimpanzees are like us in more troubling ways as well, Goodall found; they sometimes wage war on rival groups of chimps, occasionally killing each other.

From Salon

French soldiers have boarded an oil tanker believed to be part of Russia's "shadow fleet", used to evade sanctions imposed because of the war in Ukraine.

From BBC

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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