peace treaty

noun

: an agreement to stop fighting a war

Examples of peace treaty in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The people of the Middle East are urgently in need of ending the fighting and beginning the peace process, which must lead to the establishment of a Palestinian state and reaching a peace treaty and other agreements between all Arab states including Palestine and Israel. Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 5 Sep. 2024 The first Nagorno-Karabakh War, fought between 1988 and 1994, saw dozens of thousands of casualties on both sides before a peace treaty favorable to Armenia was signed. Brady Knox, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 1 Sep. 2024 Southwest will either brace itself for an off-season proxy fight or sign a peace treaty with Elliott to determine what the board will eventually look like. Michael Flaherty, Axios, 14 Aug. 2024 This is reminiscent of the time when Jacob and Esau make a peace treaty near a mound of stones called gal’ed, literally a mound (gal) of testimony (ed; Genesis 31:46–48). Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 12 Aug. 2024 See all Example Sentences for peace treaty 

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“Peace treaty.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/peace%20treaty. Accessed 20 Sep. 2024.

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