world war
Example Sentences
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After the second world war, sugar remained rationed in Britain for several years.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 26, 2026
As Warren’s account reflects, Americans at the time knew it was a world war.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 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’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
