pacifist
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After Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Germany dropped a long-standing pacifist tradition shaped by its dark World War II past and started ramping up spending to overhaul the armed forces.
From Barron's • Dec. 17, 2025
For an animated feature, “Scarlet” is unusually ambitious: It’s a “Hamlet”-adjacent existential pacifist revenge parable.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 11, 2025
Another had her torching Japan’s pacifist postwar constitution, releasing a fiery-eyed specter wearing Japan’s wartime rising-sun flag.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 24, 2025
The student they shared an apartment with, the Wiccan pacifist without enemies, somehow seemed a convenient one.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 19, 2025
I didn’t want to tell you this, Dad, but since we’re baring our souls to each other, I feel I ought to tell you he’s also a pacifist.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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