détente
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The meeting came as both countries announced they would set up a joint task force to deal with the haze - an apparent détente after weeks of simmering bilateral tensions.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026
Mr. Trump was seeking a détente in his trade war with China and was at odds with India over trade.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 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
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
We had little in common except the sisterly urge to irritate each other and our daily detente to watch “Saved by the Bell” for an hour after school.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
But since the United States and Iran signed a memorandum of understanding in June, a detente appeared to take shape.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 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
By term’s end Tuesday, the president and the court seemed to have reached something of a detente.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 1, 2026
Some of the newsroom boys returned Riddle’s animosity, but the fact that he owned some of the fastest and most noteworthy horses on earth led to a certain uneasy detente.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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
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