internecine war
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Because both sides are viruses, the results of this internecine war necessarily include something of interest to people: antivirals.
From Salon ● Nov. 9, 2023
No reason, that is, except inertia, incompetence and internecine war.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 26, 2022
Ms. Katz said the woman, who has been “deeply traumatized,” doesn’t want to become “a pawn in an internecine war between Zucker, Chris Cuomo and CNN” and won’t be saying anything further.
From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2022
Twenty-eight years after the end of its internecine war that left 100,000 dead, Bosnia-Herzegovina votes on Sunday to elect a bewildering number of national and sub-national presidencies, parliaments, and assemblies.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 4, 2018
This old style of design in ornament continued in use in Ireland until the twelfth or thirteenth century—in fact, until the inhabitants had destroyed its civilisation by internecine war.
From Rambles of an Archaeologist Among Old Books and in Old Places Being Papers on Art, in Relation to Archaeology, Painting, Art-Decoration, and Art-Manufacture by F. W. (Frederick William) Fairholt
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