How to Use the Cold War in a Sentence
the Cold War
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Peter Wright was one of the good guys during the Cold War.
— Neal B. Freeman, National Review, 29 May 2024 -
Marked the beginning of the end for the Soviet Union and the Cold War.
— Will Daniel, Fortune, 9 July 2024 -
But as the logic of the Cold War took hold, those hopes curdled.
— Samuel Clowes Huneke, The New Republic, 22 Sep. 2023 -
In the middle of the Cold War, that’s what many residents thought.
— Marianne Mather, Chicago Tribune, 19 Sep. 2024 -
The early stages of the flying saucer age really is the story of the start of the Cold War.
— Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023 -
The same was true for the eight years since the Cold War ended, pace Huntington.
— Jordan Michael Smith, The New Republic, 19 Oct. 2023 -
In a sense, this incursion marked the beginning of the Cold War.
— The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024 -
The prison swap on Thursday was the largest prisoner swap between the two countries since the end of the Cold War.
— Anna Gordon, TIME, 2 Aug. 2024 -
Propagandists on both sides of the Cold War framed the conflict as a black-and-white war of ideas.
— Chris Wallace, Travel + Leisure, 16 Oct. 2024 -
Once again, the White House was well aware of the detrimental effect these events had when viewed through the Cold War lens.
— Francine Uenuma, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Feb. 2023 -
Did the Cold War and the need to get capable planes in service add any sense of urgency to the job?
— Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 20 Mar. 2023 -
But during the Cold War, we were often seen as brutish and heavy-handed.
— TIME, 9 Jan. 2024 -
The series addresses the Cold War which is often still seen in black-and-white.
— Pablo Sandoval, Variety, 13 Dec. 2023 -
The main thing that was going on in the world was the Cold War, and then these guys were trying to pretend like they weren’t involved.
— The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 1 Mar. 2023 -
At the height of the Cold War, many free services were seen as supporting communist ideals.
— Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 17 May 2024 -
In 1973, in the throes of the Cold War, the notion that nations and ideologies would be incidental might have seemed like the stuff of pulpy sci-fi.
— John Semley, WIRED, 16 Feb. 2023 -
There was a growing sense among the Russian élite that the results of the Cold War needed to be revisited.
— Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2023 -
After the Cold War, production dropped to a few hundred million rounds a year.
— Ben Dooley Emily Rhyne, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2023 -
His belief in the game’s potential eventually leads him to the Soviet Union in the midst of the Cold War.
— Vulture, 17 Feb. 2023 -
At the height of the Cold War, the U.S. government decided to start banking seeds for staples such as corn and soybeans.
— Ali Martin, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Oct. 2024 -
The movie centers around the fictional invention of the Pop-Tart and takes inspiration from the Cold War and space era.
— Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 30 May 2024 -
Today’s war in Ukraine and past conflicts during the Cold War share this structural constraint.
— Austin Carson, Foreign Affairs, 14 Sep. 2023 -
During the Cold War, a heated debate arose over the role of economic planning.
— Daniel Pellathy, The Conversation, 31 May 2024 -
Well, sports tech has come a long way since Rocky ended the Cold War, and what used to be reserved for top competitors has filtered down to kids’ leagues.
— Michael Schreiber, Rolling Stone, 21 Apr. 2023 -
During the Cold War, though, this rocket was part of a dangerous class of nuclear weapons.
— Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Feb. 2024 -
The site is one of hundreds around the nation built to defend the U.S. from what were perceived as serious foreign threats during the Cold War.
— Tasha Zemke, Outside Online, 6 Feb. 2023 -
The death of Lumumba was a signal moment of both the Cold War and decolonization, two defining events of the post-1945 world.
— Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2023 -
Reagan and Mulroney became friends as two national leaders during the last decade of the Cold War.
— Rob Gillies, Fortune, 23 Mar. 2024 -
During the Cold War, restrictions on free expression made many artists into dissidents.
— Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2024 -
During the Cold War, Stalin, facing a champagne ban, ordered the establishment of a high-end facility there, in a former gypsum mine more than two hundred feet underground.
— Boris Fishman, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024
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