detente

Example Sentences

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Having achieved detente after a period of acrimony, they are charitable with one another, and themselves.

From Los Angeles Times

But these two passengers eventually achieve a détente, even a kind of friendship, a hallucinatory acknowledgment of what is human within the animal and animal within the human.

From New York Times

The détente between the two regional heavyweights could help bring Yemen’s nine-year civil war to an end, Barbara Leaf said.

From Seattle Times

While it’s not the first time the U.S. and Iran have traded strikes in Syria, the attack and the U.S. response threaten to upend recent efforts to deescalate tensions across the wider Middle East, whose rival powers have made steps toward détente in recent days after years of turmoil.

From Seattle Times

While it’s not the first time the U.S. and Iran have traded strikes in Syria, the attacks and the U.S. response threaten to upend recent efforts to deescalate tensions across the wider Middle East, whose rival powers have made steps toward détente in recent days after years of turmoil.

From Seattle Times