World War II

noun

: the war that was fought mainly in Europe and Asia from 1939 to 1945

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An old-school World War II drama, a quietly powerful Irish drama, a Christmas story and a fantasy anime arrive in movie theaters this week. Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2024 Delafield said voting means a lot to him, as his World War II veteran father always encouraged his kids. Brittany Carloni, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Nov. 2024 It was shot at Pinewood Studios and Longcross Studios outside London as well as at other locations such as a former World War II Royal Air Force base which doubled as the Resistance headquarters on the planet D'Qar where the first sequence of The Last Jedi takes place. Caroline Reid, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024 Still, Stovall notes a mathematician might scoff at basing a model on such a limited sample, in this case the 21 presidential elections held in the U.S. since World War II. Kate Gibson, CBS News, 5 Nov. 2024 See all Example Sentences for World War II 

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