internecine war

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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

This series' creator Jesse Armstrong reacquaints the audience with the Roys in the midst of an internecine war.

From Salon • Oct. 17, 2021

The United States has closely observed this internecine war.

From Washington Post • Nov. 27, 2018

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 though, after all, his argument was merely a restatement of the time-worn Malthusianism, coming out of the mouth of one who had strenuously applied it during forty years of internecine war, it carried force.

From The Mystery of The Barranca by Whitaker, Herman