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world war

noun

  1. a war that involves most of the principal nations of the world.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of world war1

First recorded in 1910–15
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Example Sentences

As a real estate company, we’ve been through a couple of world wars and global financial crises, but we’ve never been in a scenario where every office on the planet is emptied out.

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Since 1896, the Summer Olympics have taken place every four years except for 1916, 1940 and 1944, when they were canceled because of world wars.

It took the destruction of a world war for the United States to replace Britain’s global infrastructure.

When the pandemic first began, Gates wrote in his blog, “this is like a world war, except in this case, we’re all on the same side.”

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During the world wars, Rath grows into one of the nation’s biggest meatpackers, thanks to lucrative wartime contracts and savvy ads catering to consumers’ appetite for canned meat.

As Sutton shows in his book, the important shift took place gradually, from the end of the Civil War until World War II.

My father was in an intelligence unit for the U.S. Navy, as he had been in World War II.

The Chief who went through World War I and then managed to get back into World War II.

World War II is still a long way off, but the seeds of conflict are already being sown on the continent.

In particular, it applies to immigrants who lost their U.S. citizenship after their involvement in World War II was discovered.

In recent days it has been again devastated by the great world war, as its gaunt ruins mutely tell.

(i) There was a substantial increase in juvenile delinquency during the Second World War.

Moreover, they would never forget the friendly attitude America had shown them in this terrible world war.

But Germany did not see how to make this promise and still meet her two formidable enemies, and thus a world-war began.

It was our weighing time in the balance of the world war, and we proved ourselves not wanting.

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