peace treaty

noun

: an agreement to stop fighting a war

Examples of peace treaty in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The Koreas technically remain at war since the Korean war ended in 1953 with an armistice instead of a peace treaty. Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 21 June 2024 In 1795, Kant published Perpetual Peace, an essay that took the form of a hypothetical peace treaty and that established the concept’s theoretical foundations. Michael Doyle, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2024 Israel presses toward Rafah as US demands plan to protect civilians Israel's determination to pursue Hamas militants into the overcrowded city of Rafah in southern Gaza threatens civilian lives, a decades-long peace treaty with Egypt and progress in cease-fire negotiations. Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 12 Feb. 2024 The status of Crimea was to be decided over a 10- or 15-year period, with Ukraine promising not to try to retake the peninsula by force; Mr. Zelensky and Mr. Putin would meet in person to finalize a peace treaty and strike a deal on how much Ukrainian territory Russia would continue to occupy. Anton Troianovski, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2022 See all Example Sentences for peace treaty 

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“Peace treaty.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/peace%20treaty. Accessed 4 Jul. 2024.

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