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• Tensions grew for months as the U.S. prepared to go to war.
  — USA Today, 15 Sep. 2022
• Passengers will go to war over their right to the overhead bin space.
  — Christopher Elliott, USA TODAY, 17 Mar. 2023
• Their families — and species — are destined to go to war.
  — Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 10 June 2022
• The three go to war over the Lover, but their identities prove unstable.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2023
• The book follows two young men, classmates at a fictional British boarding school called Preshute, who fall in love and go to war.
  — Elizabeth A. Harris, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2023
• Europe was split into two camps: France and Germany opposed Bush's decision to go to war against Iraq.
  — CBS News, 29 June 2022
• Serhii Shumei, 64, never scolded Vitalii for choosing to go to war.
  — Hanna Arhirova, ajc, 15 Jan. 2023
• Keep your eyes open as the dating app makers go to war over which dating app or online portal has the most and best use of generative AI.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023
• At the center of the Great Seal of the Choctaw Nation is an unstrung bow, a symbol of the tribal people's love of peace—but also of their willingness to go to war if first attacked.
  — Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 21 May 2022
• Whitaker, whose Gerrera has not yet been driven completely mad by loss and that slimy, mind-melting monster Bor Gullet, seems willing to go to war.
  — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 1 Aug. 2022
• Our interest is not so strong, however, as to justify committing the United States to go to war with Russia over Ukraine’s fate.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 2 Feb. 2022
• Set in the 1930s, the new film continues the narrative that Grindelwald’s ready to go to war to eradicate the world’s Muggle (non-magical) population.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 5 Apr. 2022
• Kennan observed, however, that unlike Hitler, Stalin wasn’t eager to go to war.
  — Jordan Michael Smith, The New Republic, 10 Mar. 2022
• The television airwaves, rarely a place where state legislative candidates go to war, have been flooded with advertising on the races.
  — Nick Corasaniti, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2022
• Brook pointed out that there are easier ways for investors to turn a profit than to go to war with a powerful entity such as Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News.
  — Stephen Battaglio, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2023
• Gender-equal countries are less likely to go to war, to use force first during conflicts, or to be involved in violent international crises.
  — Alison Holder, Fortune, 8 Mar. 2022
• Letters of the alphabet go to war clinging to one another, standing up, forming words no one wants to shout, sentences that are blown by the mines in the avenues, stories shelled by multiple rocket launches.
  — Lesyk Panasiuk, The Atlantic, 8 May 2022
• That’s something that becomes a foundation of why people go to war at the national and international level ...
  — Travis Andersen, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Oct. 2022
• Putin had not made an irreversible decision to go to war, but his views on Ukraine had hardened, his appetite for risk had grown, and the Russian leader believed his moment of opportunity would soon pass.
  — Liz Sly, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2022
• The story revolves around a ragtag band of pushcart vendors who go to war against the fleets of trucks taking over their narrow city streets, most memorably by attacking enemy vehicles with pea shooters.
  — New York Times, 21 July 2022
• Belarus’s armed forces, despite their close cooperation with those of Russia, have shown no evident inclination to go to war for Moscow as this would expose their own country to reprisals.
  — Keir Giles, CNN, 30 Mar. 2023
• The Founding Fathers intended it this way, reasoning that the executive branch will always be more inclined to go to war and the legislative branch provides a necessary counterweight, Kaine said.
  — Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2023
• To go to war, to recover from a pandemic, recover from hurricane or natural disasters, to provide services for their people.
  — Kira Bindrim, Quartz, 25 Apr. 2022
• Intelligent discussion of foreign policy is increasingly unlikely, especially the issue of when and why the US should go to war.
  — Jackson Lears, The New York Review of Books, 6 Apr. 2022
• Then, on paper, U.S. and Chinese satellites, space weapons, drones, submarines, ground forces, warships, fighter squadrons, cyber warriors, communications experts, bankers, Treasury officials and diplomats all go to war.
  — Ellen Knickmeyer, Chicago Tribune, 22 Apr. 2023
• Not that greasy hamburgers and sickly-sweet soda are necessary or even desirable in any thriving democratic market—although there certainly was a theory, once, that no two countries with McDonald’s outlets would ever go to war with each other.
  — Samanth Subramanian, Quartz, 10 Mar. 2022

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024