How to Use Second World War in a Sentence
Second World War
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The past two years have seen the most conflicts of any time since the end of the Second World War.
—Paul Poast, The Atlantic, 17 Nov. 2023
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It was also shared on the eve of the anniversary of the end of the Second World War.
—Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 8 May 2024
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Europe endured one of its most tumultuous years since the end of the Second World War in 2022.
—Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 8 Nov. 2023
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But in the aerial campaigns of the Second World War, what was the value of judging intentions?
—Malcolm Gladwell, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023
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More than two years into the largest state-on-state conflict since the Second World War, perhaps the greater wonder is that anyone does.
—Joel Gehrke, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 30 June 2024
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Any student of history knows the basic outline of the Second World War.
—Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 27 Mar. 2024
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That exceeds the peak the country reached in the Second World War, the highest level ever in our history.
—Robert Hormats, Fortune, 21 Sep. 2023
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Birch said that more unexploded missiles and bombs have fallen in Gaza than anywhere in the world since at least the Second World War.
—Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 8 May 2024
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The most famous example came in his classic debut novel of the Second World War, Catch-22.
—Daniel Foster, National Review, 24 Aug. 2023
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What was her life actually like during the Second World War?
—Radhika Seth, Vogue, 15 Feb. 2024
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Gathered below are a handful of images of some of the many ways people put bicycles to use during the Second World War.
—Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 17 Apr. 2024
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Years later, the Second World War broke out, and the British government evacuated the city’s children to the countryside.
—Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2023
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During the Second World War, with factories running around the clock, there was a tremendous demand for workers.
—Dan Kaufman, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2023
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Clearly, the filmmakers want to send the viewer out on another high, although there’s not so much to smile about as the Second World War section of the story is tied up.
—Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Sep. 2023
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After the defeat of Japan in the Second World War, when the country was in ruins, the new democratic government stepped up this transformation.
—Johann Hari, TIME, 9 May 2024
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But that's a difficult message for an electorate already labouring under a tax burden now at its highest level since the Second World War.
—The Week Uk, theweek, 29 June 2024
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Her photographs of the war, its victims and its consequences remain among the most significant and historically important of the Second World War.
—Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 15 July 2024
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Following the Second World War, the concept of adolescence as a unique life stage was bolstered by advertisers who saw profit potential in targeting a teen market.
—Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 21 June 2024
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My earliest memories are looking at photographs in newspapers, or in my dad’s encyclopedia, and realizing my world in Düsseldorf, which was ninety per cent destroyed [during the Second World War], was not like the rest of the world.
—Nathan Taylor Pemberton, The New Yorker, 10 Dec. 2023
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Founded by three veterans of the Second World War with zero journalistic or publishing experience, this paper would conjure its authority by other than the usual means.
—Michelle Orange, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2024
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From the Second World War through the nineteen-nineties, military deployments were usually accompanied by diplomatic initiatives.
—Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2024
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During this interregnum, new approaches to global economic government were emerging which crystallized during the Second World War.
—Martin Daunton, Fortune, 17 Nov. 2023
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Sutton said the evangelicals’ focus on political power began building after the Second World War, as religion was injected more directly into campaigns and platforms.
—Josh Dawsey, Washington Post, 16 July 2024
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Defense work during the Second World War adapted those insights to military ends: devising uncrackable cryptography, resisting signal jamming, reducing interference in anti-aircraft radar systems.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
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