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Krieg

American  
[kreek, kreeg] / krik, krig /

noun

German.
  • Kriege,
    plural
  • Kriegs
    plural
  1. war.


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Andreas Krieg, a security expert at King's College London, said: "A simultaneous crisis at Hormuz and Bab al-Mandeb would produce a much larger shock than either blockade alone".

From Barron's Jul. 23, 2026

"It was clearly designed to show that even the UAE's most sensitive and internationally protected infrastructure can be reached. That is the message," said Krieg.

From Barron's May 18, 2026

Dr Andreas Krieg, a security expert from King's College London, told BBC Verify the fibre-optics render Israel's capacity to detect, jam and intercept drones "largely irrelevant" and makes finding the operator significantly more challenging.

From BBC May 16, 2026

Krieg said that IRGC-linked accounts would be frozen first.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 6, 2026

There a youth threw his hat in the air and cried: "Hock der Krieg, Hock der Krieg!"

From The Land of Deepening Shadow Germany-at-War by D. Thomas Curtin

The Volks-Tribun ceased to be published in 1847, and for some time after Mr. Kriege gained a livelihood by teaching German.

From The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 by Various

In 1868 a private training-college for kindergartners was opened in Boston, largely through Miss Peabody's influence, by Madame Matilde Kriege and her daughter, who had recently arrived from Germany.

From The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization by Ellwood Patterson Cubberley

Even now Prussian Pecksniffs like Herr Ernst Marré, whose pamphlet, Die Türken und Wir nach dem Kriege, was published in 1916, continue to insist that Germany is nobly devoting herself to the well-being of Turkey.

From Crescent and Iron Cross by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

Director Kriege told Mr. Jackson that a written communication in which the substance of the foregoing would be contained, would soon to be made to the Embassy.

From My Four Years in Germany by James W. (James Watson) Gerard

I do not know what they think of the article of Thomas Mann which appeared in the November number of the Neue Rundschau: "Gedanken im Kriege."

From Above the Battle by Romain Rolland

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