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Krieg

American  
[kreek, kreeg] / krik, krig /

noun

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


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"This is highly significant symbolically, even if the physical damage appears limited," according to Andreas Krieg, a security expert at King's College London, who described it as "both a major escalation and a warning shot".

From Barron's ● May 18, 2026

"Strategically, this will harden Abu Dhabi's view that passive defence is not enough," Krieg said.

From Barron's ● May 18, 2026

To avoid jinxing it, Kohs and Krieg never even uttered the word Nobel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 17, 2026

Prof Andreas Krieg, a Middle East security expert from King's College London, has called the movement of the blocks a "tool for territorial engineering".

From BBC ● Jan. 15, 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

He said that this note had been drawn by Director Kriege who was their expert on international law, and that he would not interfere with Kriege's work.

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

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

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

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

Mr. Jackson put this conversation down in the form above given and showed Director Kriege a copy of it.

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

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