internecine war
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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
This series' creator Jesse Armstrong reacquaints the audience with the Roys in the midst of an internecine war.
From Salon • Oct. 17, 2021
He may, indeed, quash the crudest outbursts of an internecine war fought on multiple fronts, as he sought to in dismissing director of communications Anthony Scaramucci.
From The Guardian • Aug. 1, 2017
The internecine war which raged in Kansas for several years was substituted for the promised peace under the operation of the natural laws regulating migration to new countries.
From The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government by Davis, Jefferson
