internecine war

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Ms. Katz said the woman, who has been “deeply traumatized,” doesn’t want to become “a pawn in an internecine war between Zucker, Chris Cuomo and CNN” and won’t be saying anything further.

From New York Times • Feb. 15, 2022

This series' creator Jesse Armstrong reacquaints the audience with the Roys in the midst of an internecine war.

From Salon • Oct. 17, 2021

The United States has closely observed this internecine war.

From Washington Post • Nov. 27, 2018

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

This old style of design in ornament continued in use in Ireland until the twelfth or thirteenth century—in fact, until the inhabitants had destroyed its civilisation by internecine war.

From Rambles of an Archaeologist Among Old Books and in Old Places Being Papers on Art, in Relation to Archaeology, Painting, Art-Decoration, and Art-Manufacture by Fairholt, F. W. (Frederick William)