détente
Example Sentences
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The sentiment going into this week’s Lunar New Year is sharply different than the pessimism of a year ago, as China stacked up some wins in 2025: reigniting enthusiasm in its stock market with start-up DeepSeek’s artificial-intelligence successes and leveraging its critical-minerals dominance to reach a detente with the U.S.
From Barron's
The sentiment going into this week’s Lunar New Year is sharply different than the pessimism of a year ago, as China stacked up some wins in 2025: reigniting enthusiasm in its stock market with start-up DeepSeek’s artificial-intelligence successes and leveraging its critical-minerals dominance to reach a detente with the U.S.
From Barron's
Once they crossed the threshold of the apartment, business talk was banned—a detente that will be tested if Sweden meets Finland.
Much of it depends on how long her tenuous detente lasts with the U.S., which is tightly controlling her government’s oil revenues, and whether she can tame the expectations of a Venezuelan population clamoring for a return to democracy.
The countries enjoyed a brief detente when former President Barack Obama negotiated the restoration of full diplomatic relations.
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