police action

noun

Definition of police actionnext
as in civil war

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  1. civil war
  2. cold war
  3. world war
  4. holy war
  5. limited war
Noun
  • Syrian President Bashar Assad fled to Russia over the weekend, ending a nearly 14-year struggle to maintain power in his country amid a civil war that turned into a battlefield for international and regional powers.
    Greg Wehner, Fox News, 9 Dec. 2024
  • Assad and his family are known for a brutal dictatorship, which since 2011 has been devastated by a civil war that turned it into a breeding ground for the extremist group ISIS while sparking a refugee crisis that saw millions displaced from their homes.
    Alexandra Banner, CNN, 9 Dec. 2024
Definition of civil war
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  • Kino Lorber’s cold war doc Soundtrack To A Coup d’Etat opened at the Film Forum in NYC to $9.1k.
    Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 3 Nov. 2024
  • Second, a worry is that if countries try to keep their AI close to the vest, this will in turn start a new kind of cold war.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
Definition of cold war
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  • The South Koreans have pledged to arm Ukraine if North Korean troops fight there, raising the complicated prospect of an Asian proxy war in Europe – again something that would have been inconceivable years ago, and that also tilts us towards the notion of a world war.
    Mike O'Sullivan, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2024
  • Her sudden death, at 39, just a few weeks after the album’s recording, tempts a retrospective reading of ((world war)).
    Pitchfork, Pitchfork, 1 Oct. 2024
Definition of world war
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  • The Justice Department said Aman wanted to join ISIS to engage in a holy war, or jihad, in Syria.
    Krystal Nurse, USA TODAY, 7 Nov. 2024
  • The Declaration in Script and Print: A Visual History of America’s Founding Document by John Bidwell Rozina Ali God’s Directive After the September 11 attacks, evangelical American missionaries followed military tanks into Afghanistan and Iraq to convert Muslims as part of a holy war.
    The New York Review of Books, The New York Review of Books, 1 Nov. 2024
Definition of holy war
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  • Israel and Hezbollah have engaged in a limited war since last October, but Israeli forces have significantly escalated the scope of their attacks since the beginning of September in an attempt to force Hezbollah to stop its attacks on northern Israel.
    Mike Brest, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 30 Sep. 2024
  • In this scenario, which may already be coming to fruition, the meager hope is that the conflict transforms into simply a more limited war.
    Daniel Byman, Foreign Affairs, 5 Apr. 2024
Definition of limited war
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