as in truce
a temporary stopping of fighting
both sides in the conflict agreed to an armistice during the solemn holy days
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The comment, however, followed some of Israel's most intensive strikes to date against dozens of military targets, including warships, aircraft, missile depots and chemical weapons stockpiles, and a ground incursion across the no man's land that lies beyond the 1974 Golan Heights armistice line.
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Russel Honoré, Newsweek, 5 Mar. 2025
For decades afterward and until the advent of internet telephony, Druze families divided by the armistice lines who wanted to communicate with one another did so via megaphone in an area that came to be known as Shouting Hill.
—Uriel Heilman, New York Daily News, 2 Mar. 2025
But their armistice goes sideways when Sam’s close friend Isaiah Bradley (Carl Lumbly), a Black super-soldier locked up and experimented on by the government for 30 years, is mind-controlled as part of an assassination attempt on Ross.
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2025
An armistice between the Allied nations and Germany began officially on Nov. 11, 1918 — the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, according to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
—John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Nov. 2024
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Russel Honoré, Newsweek, 5 Mar. 2025
For decades afterward and until the advent of internet telephony, Druze families divided by the armistice lines who wanted to communicate with one another did so via megaphone in an area that came to be known as Shouting Hill.
—Uriel Heilman, New York Daily News, 2 Mar. 2025
But their armistice goes sideways when Sam’s close friend Isaiah Bradley (Carl Lumbly), a Black super-soldier locked up and experimented on by the government for 30 years, is mind-controlled as part of an assassination attempt on Ross.
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2025
An armistice between the Allied nations and Germany began officially on Nov. 11, 1918 — the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, according to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
—John Tufts, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Nov. 2024
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“Armistice.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/armistice. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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