internecine war

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Because both sides are viruses, the results of this internecine war necessarily include something of interest to people: antivirals.

From Salon • Nov. 9, 2023

Set 172 years before the birth of Daenerys Targaryen, it chronicles the history of her royal family during a tumultuous time, a calamitous internecine war known as “The Dance of the Dragons.”

From New York Times • Aug. 10, 2022

No reason, that is, except inertia, incompetence and internecine war.

From Washington Post • Jun. 26, 2022

Twenty-eight years after the end of its internecine war that left 100,000 dead, Bosnia-Herzegovina votes on Sunday to elect a bewildering number of national and sub-national presidencies, parliaments, and assemblies.

From The Guardian • Oct. 4, 2018

It is a Book contradicting all rules of Formalism, that have not a Reality within them, which so few have;—testifying, the more quietly the worse, internecine war with Quacks high and low.

From The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I by Carlyle, Thomas