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
The rebel factions have a history of division and internecine fighting.
From BBC • Dec. 7, 2024
For the first time, Cox and Pope both saw that the internecine battle appeared coordinated.
From Salon • Nov. 14, 2024
If the series, based on Thomas Mallon’s 2007 novel, has a singular strength, it’s this willingness to frame the Lavender Scare, and other defining moments in queer history, as a form of internecine conflict.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 10, 2023
"We can make of the historical record that there was depopulation and movement of people from internecine warfare and diseases," he said to me.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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