go to war
Example Sentences
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And in his opening public remarks, Xi messaged the U.S. and China should avoid “the Thucydides trap,” where the world’s foremost power and its rising challenger are doomed to go to war.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
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
You hire him when you’ve decided to go to war, and prepare to fight all the way to the Supreme Court.
From Salon ● May 13, 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
Octavian did not want to appear to go to war against Mark Antony.
From "Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen" by Susan Blackaby
