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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

Whether the mine detonations constitute an armistice violation is less clear cut, said Shin Jong-woo, who served in South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff more than a decade ago when another land-mine incident occurred.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

The United States stations about 28,500 troops in South Korea to bolster the country's defences, a legacy of the 1950-53 Korean War that ended with an armistice rather than a peace treaty.

From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 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

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

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

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

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


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