war
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The two Koreas are technically still at war since they did not sign a peace treaty after the Korean War.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
At the St. Petersburg Economic Forum in June, Mr. Shuvalov pushed back against hawkish speakers who advocated putting the country on a war footing with state management of the economy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
The group, which controls swathes of Yemen and has been at war with Riyadh for over a decade, has declared a maritime blockade of Saudi Arabia and attacked ships in the Red Sea.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
Yields have drifted higher along with oil prices over the course of the Iran war, now in its sixth month.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
A rifle leans against his grandfather’s leg and I wonder if this drawing was made of the hunting party, of the day Theo was to have gone off to war.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
"I'd love to see artificial intelligence winning wars, liberating territories."
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
“This house was built in 1905. It survived all the wars, until now.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
It didn’t matter much back then, as the U.S. wasn’t fighting a lot of wars.
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2026
Even the fluffy rom-coms are steeped in real life’s anxieties about the social and political, the wars and the wages.
From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2026
The twentieth century held some surprises for us all: the flicker of the motion pictures, the yammer of the radio, the mounting rumble of foreign wars, the jangle of change.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
In his first term, he warred incessantly with public sector unions.
From Slate ● Mar. 12, 2025
Patel has warred against the FBI for years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 27, 2025
U.S. oil prices hit their lowest this year overnight as concerns over Chinese demand warred with talk of possible OPEC+ output cuts.
From Reuters ● Nov. 29, 2022
They had warred in private over differences about how to spend the money in areas like transit and broadband, and how to pay for the spending.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 10, 2021
Fury and puzzlement warred within him, and he spoke.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
Speaking on CNBC, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said a deal between the warring parties could be reached Tuesday or Wednesday.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 4, 2026
His people are ancient and few, a clan whose kinship with nature left them vulnerable to warring nobles who all but wiped them out.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
Russia and Ukraine exchanged 205 prisoners of war each on Friday, Moscow and Kyiv said, a week after US President Donald Trump announced a large swap would take place between the warring sides.
From Barron's ● May 15, 2026
Former OpenAI board member Shivon Zilis, who has four children with Musk, discussed their relationship and her view of the warring billionaires’ investing conflicts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
Ambition and kindness were warring inside her, and she was choosing ambition...again.
From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon
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