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warring

  • present participle of war.

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US President Donald Trump has said "there are very friendly negotiations going on" about the conflict with Iran, after the warring sides did not exchange strikes for a third straight day.

From BBC Jul. 27, 2026

His people are ancient and few, a clan whose kinship with nature left them vulnerable to warring nobles who all but wiped them out.

From Salon Jul. 22, 2026

The move ramps up a conflict between warring factions in Silicon Valley over how to regulate the transformative technology.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

Russia and Ukraine exchanged 205 prisoners of war each on Friday, Moscow and Kyiv said, a week after US President Donald Trump announced a large swap would take place between the warring sides.

From Barron's May 15, 2026

After six hundred years of their own strife and a few centuries of Portuguese villainy, the warring tribes of Angola had finally agreed to a peace plan.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver