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Orson Welles’s 1955 cold war thriller Mr. Arkadin is the key to Wes Anderson’s psychological puzzle The Phoenician Scheme.
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Armond White, National Review, 30 May 2025
The outcome of the Geneva talks was a temporary de-escalation of a wide-ranging cold war that is in fact much bigger than trade.
—John Feng, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 May 2025
Nvidia is stuck in the middle, with Huang maintaining relationships with both sides in a deepening tech cold war.
—Kristina Partsinevelos,chris Eudaily, CNBC, 21 May 2025
That’s a remnant of a still ongoing cold war with Cuba.
—Erik Sherman, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
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Armond White, National Review, 30 May 2025
The outcome of the Geneva talks was a temporary de-escalation of a wide-ranging cold war that is in fact much bigger than trade.
—John Feng, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 May 2025
Nvidia is stuck in the middle, with Huang maintaining relationships with both sides in a deepening tech cold war.
—Kristina Partsinevelos,chris Eudaily, CNBC, 21 May 2025
That’s a remnant of a still ongoing cold war with Cuba.
—Erik Sherman, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cold war
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Cortes: America quite literally saved the world three times in the 20th century: in two world wars, and then in the Cold War.—
Newsweek Staff,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 July 2025
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After two world wars and years of housing business tenants, the site transitioned to a Marion County Jail in the mid-1990s.—
Alysa Guffey,
IndyStar,
2 July 2025
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The two powers did find a new alignment in the Middle East when civil war broke out in Syria in 2011, with Tehran and Moscow aiding longtime Syrian President Bashar al-Assad against rebels and jihadis.—
Tom O'Connor,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 July 2025
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The civil war in Syria intensified in 2014 as the PKK was withdrawing its fighters from Turkey.—
Ragip Soylu,
Time,
18 July 2025
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Many Russians will come to believe that Russia is fighting a holy war against the West and NATO, and that Western sanctions are designed to make ordinary Russians suffer.—
Maxim Mironov,
Foreign Affairs,
11 Mar. 2022
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In 1992, the government pressured Muslim clerics to declare a holy war against Nuba who opposed the regime.—
Nicolas Niarchos,
New Yorker,
19 May 2025
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In contrast, China has made targeted investments intended to give it an advantage in a quick, limited war, while keeping its overall defense spending relatively modest: Beijing’s defense spending has risen from five percent of U.S. levels in 1995 to 32 percent in 2017.—
Oriana Skylar Mastro,
Foreign Affairs,
20 May 2025
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And as always, there’s no guarantee that a limited war would stay limited.—
Joshua Keating,
Vox,
7 Dec. 2018
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“Cold war.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cold%20war. Accessed 22 Jul. 2025.
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