détente

For years, historians followed the bomb’s echoes through the Cold War: Bikini Atoll and nuclear bunkers, Strangelove and SALT, détente and Defcon, Star Wars and saber rattling, to hit a few low points.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 16, 2026

Trade Representative Jamieson Greer offered Wednesday about the source of the unraveling of the fragile détente previously reached between the two rivals.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2025

After more than 20 rancorous years apart, a rerelease of the Talking Heads classic 1983 concert film “Stop Making Sense” has brought détente, and maybe more.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2025

Of course, they are perfect for each other, but as situations prompt a détente, Félix arrives to accompany Agathe to the retreat’s Ball, widening the path for romantic folly.

From Salon ● May 30, 2025

Eventually, after some speech making about the contribution of chess toward a possible détente between the Soviet Union and the United States, play got under way.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

The two sides agreed a modest two-month extension to the existing trade detente, but that still leaves “issues over tariffs, agricultural purchases, rare earths, and technology restrictions unresolved,” said Chan.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

Their eventual detente turns into something more meaningful for both of them, and Wikstrom and Angelo exercise the perfect amount of restraint to make their characters’ tentative friendship believable.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026

Eventually, the city and Scientologists settled into an uneasy detente even as the church became one of downtown’s largest property owners.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

Some of the world’s biggest investors held their bullish outlook on stocks even before signs of detente between the U.S. and Iran emerged, as Bank of America’s latest Global Fund Manager survey points out.

From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026

In spite of their different attitudes, hopes, and goals, they gradually— though neither could have explained how—reached a functioning detente.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols

The incidents at Sabina Shoal however raise the question of whether such détentes are effective when the dispute can simply shift to a new site.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2024

Like most other détentes between opposing groups over the past couple of years, the goodwill didn’t last.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2023