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The prize has been withheld 19 times since 1901, including during both world wars.
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Mike Corder and Elena Becatoros, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Oct. 2024
Surrounded by Italy on all sides, this microstate — the third smallest in Europe — has stubbornly clung to its independence over the centuries, even as revolutions and world wars swirled around it.
—Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 9 Oct. 2024
Trump warns of another world war, and yet here, too, his policies seem designed to encourage aggression and destabilize the international order.
—The Editors, The New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2024
The pandemic, according to the Pan American Health Organization, killed 675,000 Americans – more than the nation’s death toll in both world wars, the Korean War, and Vietnam War combined.
—Minnah Arshad, USA TODAY, 13 Sep. 2024
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Mike Corder and Elena Becatoros, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Oct. 2024
Surrounded by Italy on all sides, this microstate — the third smallest in Europe — has stubbornly clung to its independence over the centuries, even as revolutions and world wars swirled around it.
—Elizabeth Heath, Travel + Leisure, 9 Oct. 2024
Trump warns of another world war, and yet here, too, his policies seem designed to encourage aggression and destabilize the international order.
—The Editors, The New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2024
The pandemic, according to the Pan American Health Organization, killed 675,000 Americans – more than the nation’s death toll in both world wars, the Korean War, and Vietnam War combined.
—Minnah Arshad, USA TODAY, 13 Sep. 2024
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The Latino doormen and the Albanian doormen have been in a cold war.Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2024
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To counter them, Harris or Trump could warn Americans that the costs of a hot or cold war with China would be steep, and that such a conflict could arrive soon if bilateral ties keep deteriorating.Christopher S. Chivvis, Foreign Affairs, 14 Oct. 2024
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Anger continued to be whipped up online, not least by X/Twitter owner Elon Musk, who had been critical of UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and claimed that Britain is on the brink of civil war.Zac Ntim, Deadline, 19 Oct. 2024
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For the Lebanese, such talk of encouraging one group to rise against another evokes memories of the civil war, when Lebanon’s religious sects were embroiled in an internecine, hugely destructive conflict that killed more than 150,000 people and turned Beirut into a byword for tragedy.Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2024
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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
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With Gamestop, this eventually wrapped back around into something that’s part cult, part get-rich-quick scheme, part righteous holy war against investors, and part cyberpunk cautionary tale.Amber DaSilva / Jalopnik, Quartz, 11 July 2024
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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
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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
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“World war.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/world%20war. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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