internecine

Example Sentences

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For the rest of America not versed in the internecine fights of the online right, this situation may seem baffling—or even trivial, given the ludicrous nature of Owens’ claims.

From Slate • Feb. 27, 2026

Afghanistan’s internecine bloodshed has an epiphanic effect on the author: “When death stalks every door,” she writes in a burst of originality, “the only antidote is to live.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 20, 2025

Dr Hutcheson said "we don't have the answers", but it could be that East Anglia lacked the "smaller scale internecine fighting that meant you needed almost permanent residence" in the fort.

From BBC • Jan. 9, 2024

If the series, based on Thomas Mallon’s 2007 novel, has a singular strength, it’s this willingness to frame the Lavender Scare, and other defining moments in queer history, as a form of internecine conflict.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 10, 2023

The mindless contents of commercial television and the integuments of international crisis and internecine warfare within the human family are the principal messages about life on Earth that we choose to broadcast to the Cosmos.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan