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[wawr] / wɔr /




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BALTIMORE—With its boarded-up windows and peeling facade, the vacant building didn’t seem like the kind of house that would prompt a bidding war.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 17, 2026

It’s too simple to say that the war caused Americans to sour on Israel.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 16, 2026

Last week, South Korea's president proposed talks with its northern neighbour on officially ending the war between the two that is technically still active since an armistice was signed in 1953.

From BBC Aug. 16, 2026

The United States for years refused contact with Hamas, which it classifies as a terrorist organisation and which led the October 7, 2023 attack on Israel that sparked the Gaza war.

From Barron's Aug. 16, 2026

The Tucson Daily Star reports on Joey’s accomplishments in the Philippines—not just the war effort, but her advocacy on behalf of the “leper colonies” there.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

He clumsily glosses World War I as “one of the worst wars in human history.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 13, 2026

"Even wars have rules. One of those is that health must be protected!"

From Barron's Aug. 9, 2026

For 58 seasons, through wars, impeachments and the corporate dismantling of the network news business around it, “60 Minutes” remained America’s highest-rated newsmagazine.

From Salon Aug. 8, 2026

And amid the ongoing fast-food discount wars, analysts note that Wendy’s value menu has perhaps gotten too complex.

From MarketWatch Aug. 8, 2026

Jefferson had recently ensconced himself at Monticello, relishing his retirement, and Madison was returning to the political wars in Philadelphia.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

In his first term, he warred incessantly with public sector unions.

From Slate Mar. 12, 2025

Patel has warred against the FBI for years.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 27, 2025

The northern kingdom was the larger and wealthier of the two and exerted influence over and sometimes warred with Judah.

From Textbooks Apr. 19, 2023

U.S. oil prices hit their lowest this year overnight as concerns over Chinese demand warred with talk of possible OPEC+ output cuts.

From Reuters Nov. 29, 2022

Long before apartheid existed these tribal factions clashed and warred with one another.

From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah

His people are ancient and few, a clan whose kinship with nature left them vulnerable to warring nobles who all but wiped them out.

From Salon Jul. 22, 2026

The move ramps up a conflict between warring factions in Silicon Valley over how to regulate the transformative technology.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

However, since those first few weeks of the conflict, risk assets have rallied powerfully in expectation of some kind of negotiated compromise between the warring parties and a reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.

From MarketWatch May 18, 2026

Russia and Ukraine exchanged 205 prisoners of war each on Friday, Moscow and Kyiv said, a week after US President Donald Trump announced a large swap would take place between the warring sides.

From Barron's May 15, 2026

They battled across the green Abbey lawns, right through the center of the maelstrom of warring creatures.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques




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