internecine war
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Set 172 years before the birth of Daenerys Targaryen, it chronicles the history of her royal family during a tumultuous time, a calamitous internecine war known as “The Dance of the Dragons.”
From New York Times • Aug. 10, 2022
No reason, that is, except inertia, incompetence and internecine war.
From Washington Post • Jun. 26, 2022
This series' creator Jesse Armstrong reacquaints the audience with the Roys in the midst of an internecine war.
From Salon • Oct. 17, 2021
He may, indeed, quash the crudest outbursts of an internecine war fought on multiple fronts, as he sought to in dismissing director of communications Anthony Scaramucci.
From The Guardian • Aug. 1, 2017
But he knew better than everybody else that secession meant internecine war between the sections, and this influenced him to exalt peaceable nullification above bloody secession.
From The Brothers' War by Reed, John Calvin
