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armistice

[ahr-muh-stis] / ˈɑr mə stɪs /
NOUN
peace-establishing agreement
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Roughly 1,300 markers were installed along the border at the time of the armistice identifying the military demarcation line.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

It vowed to take "corresponding measures" for what it said was a violation of a decades-old armistice.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

More than 1 million land mines are estimated to be in the DMZ, the no-man’s-land created as part of the armistice halting active hostilities in the 1950-53 Korean War.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

Lee has also said he is ready for talks with Pyongyang without preconditions, including on formally ending the Korean War, which concluded with an armistice.

From Barron's ● Aug. 21, 2026

Staff Sergeant X was in his room on the second floor of the civilian home in which he and nine other American soldiers had been quartered, even before the armistice.

From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger

By November the central powers had been forced to sign the armistices that brought the fighting to a close in the west.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

It was the first time a German leader had returned to the spot where both World War I and World War II armistices were concluded.

From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 2018

Stuffing his script into his pocket, Harry Truman added that he wanted to give the reporters a lecture on fake stories about cease-fires and armistices.

From Time Magazine Archive

So often had New Yorkers been fooled by false armistices that they were unable to believe the strike had ended until the now-unfamiliar dailies were there on the newsstands.

From Time Magazine Archive

I think this is the only case on record where an armistice has ever been refused by us, although armistices were asked for many times by the British.

From With Steyn and De Wet by Philip Pienaar


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