world war

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In November 2024, Koguan said he was “no longer all-in-Tesla” and began acquiring Treasury bills, citing his fear of a “1929 type stock market crash” and a potential third world war.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 4, 2026

As he put it, “the war is now moving to a new stage: what we in the military call ‘positional’ warfare of static and attritional fighting, as in the first world war.

From Slate • Mar. 19, 2025

One minister told me: "It's a huge moment of history – American pledging a different way of doing business to what's essentially been in place since the second world war."

From BBC • Jan. 18, 2025

Christopher Sheffield, 61, a counselor for veterans in Thomasville, Georgia, said Trump’s attitudes about race bothered him, but not as much as his concern that conflicts abroad could devolve into a world war.

From Seattle Times • May 17, 2024

He’s Team Pepsi in the world war of Pepsi versus Coke, but he was so happy seeing his name in that bodega fridge that he couldn’t resist.

From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera