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pacifism

[pas-uh-fiz-uhm] / ˈpæs əˌfɪz əm /




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The problem isn’t pacifism, but young people posing a new variation on the age-old question: “What is in it for me?”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 18, 2026

They’ve objected to books which expose readers to evolution, pacifism, magic, women achieving things outside of the home and “false views of death.”

From Salon • Jul. 2, 2025

But writer-director Todd Komarnicki’s aggressively lionizing, faith-driven movie about Bonhoeffer seems uninterested in any complexity about pacifism and violence coexisting in one man.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 22, 2024

And he pointed to Sweden and Finland, once paragons of pacifism and neutrality but now members of Nato.

From BBC • Mar. 29, 2024

Interactions with Moravian Protestant missionaries had shown the Delawares that Moravian ways of religion were similar to their own, including the ideal of pacifism.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz




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