go to war

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In L.A.’s high-stakes rental market, where tenants and landlords regularly go to war over housing disputes, renters have filed more than 115,000 complaints to the city Housing Department since 2013.

From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026

After the secretary regained his voice, Sherman went on, he managed to complete his thought: “I went to war, and it became clear to me that I never wanted to go to war again.”

From Slate • May 1, 2026

Instead, he delivers his hair-raising message—that we’re staring at “a humiliating and bloody defeat” if we go to war with China—in a jaunty, clever and sometimes breathless book.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

"It's not that we want to go to war, but if we don't want to go to war, who will?"

From BBC • Mar. 22, 2026

“He would go to war, if King Uther declared one. Do you know that Homo sapiens is almost the only animal which wages war?”

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White