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war

Definition for war

noun as in armed conflict

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And right now, he said, "everyone is feeding the dogs of war."

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Deadly leadership battles are a problem that has long plagued other nations at the epicenter of Latin America’s decades-old drug war, underscoring the difficulty of stanching violence and curbing the flow of drugs.

With a majority of the population displaced by two-years of a devastating war, most Gazans now live in tents - many of them makeshift.

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It was now working with British intelligence officials to bring home downed Allied pilots and escaped prisoners of war.

In the short term, war would disrupt trade, blocking imports of food and energy without which Japan couldn’t survive, and placing tens of thousands of Japanese visitors, students and businesspeople in Taiwan at risk.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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