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Recent Examples of pacifism
China test-fires ICBM with 'dummy' warhead, after Biden touts US relationship with Japan, South Korea
The decision to send the Sazanami through the strait is significant given Japan’s decades of post-war pacifism.
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Anthony Trotter, ABC News, 25 Sep. 2024
Gaines the younger had more than laughs and frights on his mind, however; woven into EC Comics were progressive ideals around racial equality, pacifism, environmentalism and the existential nuclear-age dread rarely spoken of in the placid, conformist 1950s.
—Patrick Sauer, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Sep. 2024
In The Eight Diagram Pole Fighter, another Shaw Brothers entry, studio mainstay Gordon Liu plays a warrior who breaks from monastic pacifism to rescue his sister and avenge his family, most of which was killed early in the movie owing to the machinations of an evil general.
—Vikram Murthi, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2024
Sometimes, this resistance has been rooted in opposition to war itself: an expression of pacifism or a reaction to the conduct of a particular war.
—Joseph Thorndike, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2024
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Anthony Trotter, ABC News, 25 Sep. 2024
Gaines the younger had more than laughs and frights on his mind, however; woven into EC Comics were progressive ideals around racial equality, pacifism, environmentalism and the existential nuclear-age dread rarely spoken of in the placid, conformist 1950s.
—Patrick Sauer, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Sep. 2024
In The Eight Diagram Pole Fighter, another Shaw Brothers entry, studio mainstay Gordon Liu plays a warrior who breaks from monastic pacifism to rescue his sister and avenge his family, most of which was killed early in the movie owing to the machinations of an evil general.
—Vikram Murthi, Vulture, 4 Mar. 2024
Sometimes, this resistance has been rooted in opposition to war itself: an expression of pacifism or a reaction to the conduct of a particular war.
—Joseph Thorndike, Forbes, 3 Sep. 2024
See All Example Sentences for pacifism
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“Pacifism.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pacifism. Accessed 1 Apr. 2025.
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