world war
Example Sentences
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As Warren’s account reflects, Americans at the time knew it was a world war.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
For example, children born to mothers who endured famine in the Netherlands during the second world war were more likely to develop heart disease, type 2 diabetes and schizophrenia later in life.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 17, 2026
Eliot theorized in his 1925 poem “The Hollow Men,” a bleak assessment of life after the first world war.
From Barron's ● Jun. 1, 2026
There’s nothing coincidental in the fact that military schools also rose up around then, and that they kept multiplying past the first world war and up to the second one.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026
He was already thinking about the role America’s scientists might play in the world war lurking on the horizon.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
