First World War

noun

: the war that was fought mainly in Europe from 1914 to 1918

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However, it was delayed by the First World War, and did not actually occur until 1925. The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 29 May 2025 The choice of Leo XIV makes Prevost the first pope to take this name since Leo XIII, who led the Church from 1878 to 1903, a critical time at the turn of the 20th century when the world was heading into an industrial and increasingly globalizing era that would soon lead to the First World War. Time, 29 May 2025 In the First World War, a roughly equal number of combatants and civilians were killed globally — approximately 10 million on each side. Bryan Walsh, Vox, 26 May 2025 One is the world of a historically bad league season for Spurs, the world of 19 defeats in the 35 games played so far, still in with a chance of breaking their record from within a 38-match league season, a record that has stood since before the First World War. Jack Pitt-Brooke, New York Times, 10 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for First World War

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