How to Use anti-war in a Sentence
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The civil rights and anti-war movements of the 1960s inspired her.
—Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2024
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Still, could the war in Ukraine inspire the Academy to honor this anti-war film?
—Brendan Morrow, The Week, 11 Mar. 2023
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Many of the roughly 150 people there are wearing fuschia in honor of Code Pink, the anti-war group hosting the event.
—TIME, 16 Oct. 2023
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Our position is anti-war — there is no room for any gray zones.
—Stjepan Hundic, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Apr. 2023
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White, male, Christian, anti-war, an enemy to the Biden regime.
—CBS News, 16 Apr. 2023
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In Yefremov, Russia, a 13-year-old girl drew an anti-war picture in school.
—Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 17 Apr. 2023
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Around the world, thousands took to the streets to join anti-war demonstrations with record attendances.
—Gary Grimes, Rolling Stone, 14 Apr. 2023
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Ellsberg spent much of the rest of his life as prominent anti-war activist.
—Conor Murray, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
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The crowd cheered, but in the 1960s the boxer had been criticized for his religious beliefs and anti-war stance.
—Ken Makin, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Mar. 2023
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My parents were very involved in the anti-war movement and the anti-nuke movement.
—Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 19 Feb. 2024
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That song was among the emotional highlights of the concert, as anti-war images flooded the video screen.
—Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 6 Aug. 2023
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Yes, Avis and Stanley become involved in the anti-war movement.
—Pat Saperstein, Variety, 21 Dec. 2023
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Walton’s involvement with civic unrest and the anti-war protests at UCLA will also be part of the series.
—oregonlive, 2 May 2023
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Mikhail says his boss forced him to quit his job because parents complained about his public anti-war stance.
—Rosa Flores, CNN, 20 Feb. 2023
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DeWitt, a longtime anti-war activist and advocate for the unhoused, flew to Texas in 2018 with a friend for a protest rally in McAllen.
—Palabra, al, 15 Mar. 2023
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Richard Nixon enraged the anti-war masses without even showing up.
—Calvin Woodward, Fortune, 4 July 2023
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One talk show compared Carlson’s visit to Jane Fonda’s anti-war trip to Vietnam in 1972.
—Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 7 Feb. 2024
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The arrests marked the first time the university has called the cops on student protesters since 1968, during anti-war protests against the Vietnam War.
—Sanya Mansoor, TIME, 19 Apr. 2024
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The director of The Zone of Interest accepted his award with an anti-war speech that drew praise and confusion.
—Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2024
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She was arrested for anti-war posts on social media, the BBC reports.
—John Bacon, USA TODAY, 17 Feb. 2023
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Blockading roads is not a new tactic: Suffragettes, civil rights activists, and anti-war activists have all blocked roads in past decades.
—Amy Westervelt, The New Republic, 12 Sep. 2023
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That spring, the US had withdrawn the last of its troops from Vietnam, and anti-war anger remained palpable on college campuses.
—Megan Greenwell, WIRED, 27 June 2023
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Nevertheless, there is so far no groundswell of anti-war protest, apart from a small contingent of military moms and wives.
—Nina Shea, National Review, 24 Jan. 2024
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Both stand as unconventional anti-war films in their own ways.
—Marta Balaga, Variety, 8 June 2023
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What must that official think of this movie, which deploys fantasy to present a powerful anti-war stance?
—Nina Li Coomes, The Atlantic, 23 Feb. 2024
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The musicians fear they’ve been targeted for their anti-war stance, according to their defense team.
—Bloomberg, Fortune, 28 Jan. 2024
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Ladue’s mayor at the time, Edith Spink, said the rationale for removing the sign was strictly aesthetic, not a reaction to Gilleo’s anti-war stance.
—Daniel E. Slotnik, BostonGlobe.com, 24 June 2023
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Legal aid lawyers have battled for months, taking cases all the way to Israel's Supreme Court, and have won permits for a few recent anti-war demonstrations.
—Jennifer Ludden, NPR, 9 Apr. 2024
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Nye added that the younger generation of voters will demand change on climate change policies and compared it to the anti-war movement that took place during the Vietnam War.
—Asher Notheis, Washington Examiner, 21 Aug. 2023
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Debs was convicted of violating the Espionage Act over an anti-war speech, and won more than 3% of the vote nationally.
—Time, 7 June 2023
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