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world war

noun as in great war

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He was speaking with Tucker Carlson, who claimed that “a strike on the Iranian nuclear sites will almost certainly result in thousands of American deaths” and “could very easily become a world war.”

The digital educational site aims to inform users of the history of the contribution of the Muslims who served in the two world wars.

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"And fish and chips have gone through a world war and gone through Covid so I'm sure it will get through this cost of living crisis as well."

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Mrs Caterham was born three years before the Titanic disaster, eight years before the Russian Revolution and lived through two world wars.

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"I had a feeling, I was like, were they behind every world war? Yes. Behind September 11th? Absolutely," she said.

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

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