How to Use the Cold War in a Sentence

the Cold War

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  • But as the logic of the Cold War took hold, those hopes curdled.
    — Samuel Clowes Huneke, The New Republic, 22 Sep. 2023
  • The early stages of the flying saucer age really is the story of the start of the Cold War.
    — Mark Athitakis, Los Angeles Times, 16 Nov. 2023
  • The same was true for the eight years since the Cold War ended, pace Huntington.
    — Jordan Michael Smith, The New Republic, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Once again, the White House was well aware of the detrimental effect these events had when viewed through the Cold War lens.
    — Francine Uenuma, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Did the Cold War and the need to get capable planes in service add any sense of urgency to the job?
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 20 Mar. 2023
  • But during the Cold War, we were often seen as brutish and heavy-handed.
    — TIME, 9 Jan. 2024
  • The series addresses the Cold War which is often still seen in black-and-white.
    — Pablo Sandoval, Variety, 13 Dec. 2023
  • The main thing that was going on in the world was the Cold War, and then these guys were trying to pretend like they weren’t involved.
    — The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 1 Mar. 2023
  • In 1973, in the throes of the Cold War, the notion that nations and ideologies would be incidental might have seemed like the stuff of pulpy sci-fi.
    — John Semley, WIRED, 16 Feb. 2023
  • There was a growing sense among the Russian élite that the results of the Cold War needed to be revisited.
    — Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2023
  • After the Cold War, production dropped to a few hundred million rounds a year.
    — Ben Dooley Emily Rhyne, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2023
  • His belief in the game’s potential eventually leads him to the Soviet Union in the midst of the Cold War.
    — Vulture, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Today’s war in Ukraine and past conflicts during the Cold War share this structural constraint.
    — Austin Carson, Foreign Affairs, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Well, sports tech has come a long way since Rocky ended the Cold War, and what used to be reserved for top competitors has filtered down to kids’ leagues.
    — Michael Schreiber, Rolling Stone, 21 Apr. 2023
  • During the Cold War, though, this rocket was part of a dangerous class of nuclear weapons.
    — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Feb. 2024
  • The site is one of hundreds around the nation built to defend the U.S. from what were perceived as serious foreign threats during the Cold War.
    — Tasha Zemke, Outside Online, 6 Feb. 2023
  • The death of Lumumba was a signal moment of both the Cold War and decolonization, two defining events of the post-1945 world.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2023
  • Reagan and Mulroney became friends as two national leaders during the last decade of the Cold War.
    — Rob Gillies, Fortune, 23 Mar. 2024
  • Since the end of the Cold War, states and civil society organizations have called on the UN to deal with conflicts large and small as a matter of habit.
    — Richard Gowan, Foreign Affairs, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Ronald Reagan famously won the Cold War without firing a shot.
    — James Freeman, WSJ, 7 Mar. 2023
  • The prospect of a direct war between two or more of the world’s great powers, something that has been avoided for 78 years and counting, seems more likely now than at any time since the end of the Cold War.
    — David Harsanyi, National Review, 12 Oct. 2023
  • For the first time since the end of the Cold War, presidential candidates may be asked about nuclear weapons, arms races, and even nuclear war.
    — Ankit Panda, The New Republic, 24 Oct. 2023
  • But Biden has always favored talks, however imperfect, in a tradition that dates back to the origins of the Cold War.
    — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 19 Nov. 2023
  • This vast, resource-rich country of just over three million people in the heart of Eurasia still clings to a vision of the more open world that existed for about 30 years after the end of the Cold War.
    — Tuvshinzaya Gantulga, Foreign Affairs, 6 Oct. 2023
  • During the Cold War, Russia became the first nation to launch a satellite, and then a human being, into outer space.
    — Michael Peck, Popular Mechanics, 29 Mar. 2023
  • The Russian military has been forced to refurbish and upgrade older tanks—many dating from the Cold War—to maintain its tank force.
    — Peter Suciu, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The symbol of the Cold War division of Germany echoed an exhibit in the Newseum, now gone, that had centered on other pieces of the famous wall.
    — Nick Anderson, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2023
  • The nuclear nightmares that kept the Cold War generation awake at night – and has been slumbering for decades – might return with a jolt.
    — Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Nov. 2023
  • The single-engine U-2 was used extensively during the Cold War.
    — Dan Lamothe, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The single-engine U-2 was initially adopted during the Cold War.
    — Dan Lamothe, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Feb. 2023

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