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war hawk

noun as in person who urges war

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“Warfare” wants to live in the dictionary shoehorned between war cry and war hawk.

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Mr Ramaswamy, who vowed ahead of the debate to be more "unconstrained", repeatedly mentioned his rival's name in his answers and slammed her as "the sharpest of the war hawks".

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U.S. involvement in foreign conflict pitted Ms. Haley against Mr. Ramaswamy, who picked fights with the former ambassador and sought to paint her as a corrupt war hawk.

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Tension between defense spending and budgets has long roiled Washington, with the war hawks usually prevailing.

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The backers of the bills were war hawks mostly, and some of the proposed responses such as bombing Mexico are downright reckless.

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

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