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armistice

[ahr-muh-stis] / ˈɑr mə stɪs /
NOUN
peace-establishing agreement
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This Anglo-Iraqi War ended with a British-brokered armistice.

From The Wall Street Journal May 31, 2026

The Korean War ended in an armistice rather than a peace treaty in 1953, meaning North and South Korea remain technically at war.

From BBC May 29, 2026

Rothman all but declared the armistice a failure, urging Vice President J.D.

From Slate Apr. 10, 2026

A United Nations bus came to transport returnees past the so-called Yellow Line, an armistice boundary created after the ceasefire that separates portions of Gaza controlled by Hamas and Israel.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 19, 2026

Austria-Hungary, threatened with a complete breakdown of order as people in the cities starved and rioted, signed an armistice agreement on November 3.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman

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

Yet the British Ministry are amusing the government with their delusive ideas of mediation, armistices, Congresses, peace, and anything to lay them asleep.

From The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution (Volume VI) by Various

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 Pienaar, Philip




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