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pacifist

[pas-uh-fist] / ˈpæs ə fɪst /


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Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi plans to boost Japan’s defense spending and revise its pacifist constitution.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 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

My father, the hardcore pacifist who can’t even squish a spider, reaches for the power cord snaking from the television to the wall socket.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller




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