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Civil War

noun as in 19th century us war

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His invocation of a civil war and the American Civil War was provocative.

It is kind of exciting to see the Republican Party disintegrate into a civil war and try to figure out which side will win.

The aim was to dry up funding for violent groups and force an end to civil wars.

From Ozy

He said militants cling to a fantasy that if a civil war were to break out, what some extremists call a boogaloo, police and the military would join their side.

We should be conscious, too, that America has shown resilience in the past when dealing with sharp divisions, up to and including a civil war.

From Time

They are, to say the least, preparing for civil war (the polling stations are stormed by armed gangs).

But what is there more irresponsible than playing with the fire of an imagined civil war in the France of today?

As Sutton shows in his book, the important shift took place gradually, from the end of the Civil War until World War II.

“[I]ndeed, the Civil War was more or less administered from there,” an Esquire review asserts.

For the past 25 years, a massive civil war has literally divided the country into two separate entities.

His 6,000 native auxiliaries (as it proved later on) could not be relied upon in a civil war.

By all the sounded consonants we have—“Inhuman Civil War;” the latter shorter, more significant, and more easily remembered.

This action aroused Governor Berkeley who immediately considered Bacon a traitor, and a civil war or rebellion resulted.

For the popular voice accused him of outrages for which the utmost license of civil war would not furnish a plea.

Whatever his resolution may be, it is feared that there will be much disturbance, if not a civil war.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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