How to Use cold war in a Sentence

cold war

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  • Instead, of course, the U.S. triumphed in both the space race and cold war.
    — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 23 Apr. 2020
  • Over the years that followed, a full-on cold war blossomed.
    — Chris Colin, Outside Online, 30 May 2018
  • There’s a trade war on with China, which some think is a new kind of cold war.
    — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 6 June 2019
  • Call it the latest phase in what could be a cyber-era cold war.
    — Nathan Bomey, USA TODAY, 15 Dec. 2020
  • But this can’t be what sets the budding cold war between the U.S. and China apart from the old.
    — Andre Pagliarini, The New Republic, 17 May 2022
  • Any thought of winning a new cold war has to start from this dismal fact.
    — George Packer, The Atlantic, 21 Nov. 2022
  • That Dongfeng was born in Shiyan is because of cold war angst, at least in local lore.
    — Lavender Au, The New York Review of Books, 4 Feb. 2020
  • Sleep on opposite sides of the bed with your backs to each other in a queen-size cold war?
    — Karley Sciortino, Vogue, 26 Mar. 2019
  • The Knicks and Bulls have spent the better part of the past decade locked in a cold war to see who can alienate more lifelong fans.
    — Andrew Sharp, SI.com, 13 July 2018
  • This all comes, by the way, at a time when Apple has stepped up its cold war against Facebook.
    — Andy Meek, BGR, 18 Aug. 2021
  • Two years later, the name again stoked cold war analogies when the Reds played the Yankees in the World Series.
    — Chris Lamb, USA TODAY, 7 Apr. 2021
  • The new cold war with China doesn’t need to be as frightening.
    — Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2021
  • Taiwan is in a sense the West Berlin of the new cold war unfolding between Beijing and the free world.
    — Andrew S. Erickson, Foreign Affairs, 16 Feb. 2024
  • The new cold war with China could be a good thing, Doyle McManus wrote in his column.
    — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2021
  • Still, the icy sentiment blowing through these Olympics is not quite a cold war.
    — Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 2 Feb. 2022
  • Meanwhile, the girls have cold wars that last for episodes—sometimes even seasons.
    — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 19 May 2020
  • But make no mistake, this cold war of words has been simmering in the background for over a decade.
    — Hazlitt, 30 May 2024
  • Comparisons with the cold war do not capture the problem.
    — The Economist, 20 Feb. 2021
  • Even such a limited cold war might not be fully priced in.
    — James MacKintosh, WSJ, 23 May 2019
  • Many countries have been caught between the United States and China in their tech cold war.
    — Adam Satariano, BostonGlobe.com, 28 Jan. 2020
  • Just a few years earlier, the two countries ended a decades-long cold war.
    — Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Let that be proof that the long cold war between PC gamers and tabletop gamers is finally over.
    — Luke Winkie, Wired, 1 June 2021
  • India has a lot to lose if Russia ignites a new cold war in Europe.
    — Sadanand Dhume, WSJ, 3 Feb. 2022
  • Mrs Ri is not the only cold war relic that could be put back into service as a result of the test.
    — The Economist, 7 Sep. 2017
  • As the Arab cold war spreads, Iran and other foes are gaining advantage.
    — The Economist, 23 June 2018
  • Clearly, Otto is ready for this cold war to heat up, though that's easy to say now that his side has the world's biggest dragon.
    — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 2 Oct. 2022
  • On these muddy fields in England’s rural heartland, a kind of cold war rages.
    — Euan Ward, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Feb. 2023
  • Hong Kong has become a flashpoint in what some see as an emerging cold war between the U.S. and China.
    — Joyu Wang, WSJ, 11 Nov. 2020
  • As the Biden team frets about admitting that the United States is now in a cold war, Beijing is leading it into the foothills of a hot one.
    — Rush Doshi, Foreign Affairs, 30 May 2024
  • What’s next is not so much a trade war or even a cold war as the dawn of an ice age in relations between China and the United States.
    — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 11 July 2018

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