cold war

Example Sentences

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This does not have to be an opening salvo in a cold war with your family and/or coded message to your sister.

From MarketWatch

The last time gender’s cold war erupted into a battle fought on such explicit terms was around 50 years ago.

From Salon

“It’s like a cold war for us,” she says.

From BBC

This is a cold war that has simmered over the last decade finally boiling to the surface. 

From BBC

Even now, the U.S. and Russia cooperate on the International Space Station, and in the middle of the cold war, we exchanged lunar samples from the Apollo and Luna missions.

From Scientific American