pacifist

Example Sentences

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“Christianity isn’t a pacifist religion,” says the Rev. Gerald Murray, a Catholic priest and commentator on EWTN.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

She has also been actively courting Trump, agreeing to raise the defence budget, a contentious move under Japan's pacifist constitution.

From BBC • Feb. 9, 2026

After Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Germany dropped a long-standing pacifist tradition shaped by its dark World War II past and started ramping up spending to overhaul the armed forces.

From Barron's • Dec. 17, 2025

For an animated feature, “Scarlet” is unusually ambitious: It’s a “Hamlet”-adjacent existential pacifist revenge parable.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 11, 2025

Mutti told her in no uncertain terms that she was proud to be a pacifist, that she would be a pacifist till the day she died.

From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo