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Pottinger and Gallagher’s nostalgia for the Cold War and their call for a new generation of cold warriors could be issued only by those who have no memory of how dangerous that war often was.
—Rush Doshi, Foreign Affairs, 30 May 2024
Not with his heritage as a cold warrior.
—David M. Shribman, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 Mar. 2021
Serving as premier from 1979 to 1990, when she was forced to resign by her own government, Thatcher was a strident cold warrior and a supporter of free markets, and especially close to President Ronald Reagan.
—Patrick Smith, NBC News, 6 Sep. 2022
And this first encounter of a lifelong cold warrior and a vigorous business like Russian drew the world's attention.
—Fox News, 10 June 2018
But the right, once rife with cold warriors, complained about the move (on Twitter), since the #TwitterLockout appeared to mostly affect the accounts of conservatives.
—Alexander Nazaryan, Newsweek, 15 Mar. 2018
In 1972, when China was desperately poor and largely insular, President Richard Nixon, a staunch cold warrior, traveled to Beijing for historic meetings with Mao Zedong, the father of the Communist revolution there.
—Bill Powell, Newsweek, 16 Oct. 2017
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First Known Use
1949, in the meaning defined above
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“Cold warrior.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cold%20warrior. Accessed 14 Nov. 2024.
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