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detente

noun as in passivity

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But China recently brokered detente between Saudi Arabia, the Emirates and Iran.

When they overlapped in office, Trump and former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador came to an unexpected detente.

An ongoing broader border dispute, intensifying bilateral competition across South Asia and in the Indian Ocean region, and China’s close alliance with Pakistan rule out the possibility of a détente anytime soon.

From BBC

And, despite talk of detente, Iran and Saudi Arabia have long been regional rivals.

From BBC

Painter indicated that he thought the detente between Kemp and Trump would last through Election Day, a reading of the situation shared by Stuart Gerson, an assistant attorney general who served under former President George H.W.

From Salon

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

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