internecine
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Afghanistan’s internecine bloodshed has an epiphanic effect on the author: “When death stalks every door,” she writes in a burst of originality, “the only antidote is to live.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 20, 2025
But for all of his newfound fame and fortune, the internecine conflicts of the L.A. streets haunted him.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2025
Dr Hutcheson said "we don't have the answers", but it could be that East Anglia lacked the "smaller scale internecine fighting that meant you needed almost permanent residence" in the fort.
From BBC • Jan. 9, 2024
Because both sides are viruses, the results of this internecine war necessarily include something of interest to people: antivirals.
From Salon • Nov. 9, 2023
Among them was the Huron leader Kondiaronk, a famed orator who had, more than any other, convened the gathering as a last-ditch effort to avoid internecine conflict.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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