wartime
caused by, characteristic of, or occurring during war: wartime shortages.
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It can affect societies as a whole after a communal trauma like wartime or pandemic.
Even if You Feel Like This Was a Lost Year, That Might Not Be True | Joanne Lipman | February 16, 2021 | TimeUnderstanding the convergence of Lincoln and Douglass is essential for understanding slavery’s wartime demise.
Working to end slavery, Lincoln found power — and limits — in the Constitution | Elizabeth R. Varon | January 22, 2021 | Washington PostIn wartime, he believed, patriots supported the president, whether they’d voted for him.
Gracious losers protect our democracy. Sore ones undermine it. | Edward McClelland | January 6, 2021 | Washington PostButterfield said that as her father aged, he continued to experience impaired balance, likely caused by the wartime injury to his feet.
Doyle Royal, U-Md. coach and decorated combat veteran, dies at 101 | Bart Barnes | November 5, 2020 | Washington PostIt may not be a Spitfire’s Merlin V12, but its design definitely descends from the know-how that built Merlins in wartime.
The first Rolls-Royce SUV has tricks that might actually justify its price tag | Dan Carney | October 5, 2020 | Popular-Science
This is not lost on their commander, Rama (Shani Klein), an aspiring military careerist who looks down on frivolity in wartime.
As his later wartime record would show, Jackson was extremely competent in the many skills required of a commanding general.
Stonewall Jackson, VMI’s Most Embattled Professor | S. C. Gwynne | November 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIt would inject a threat of accountability into power, and upend the impunity wartime leaders had operated under for years.
Schwend denied any current counterfeiting activity, but divulged his wartime role to the Peruvians.
wartime shortages, coupled with imperfections, limited the production of British currency.
The wartime pressing needs of the industrial enterprises have caused the barriers to be removed.
Negro Migration during the War | Emmett J. ScottIn Wallace's latest story a wartime setting is given to the fascinating Labrador stage.
The Passion for Life | Joseph HockingIn wartime, bars are let down, no one can look with disfavor on the factories making the weapons.
Bear Trap | Alan Edward NourseThe Germans can do what they like in wartime, and these were some of the things they liked.
In the Line of Battle | VariousLife in wartime in a country where the war is consists largely in getting used to things that are abnormal and unusual.
The Glory of The Coming | Irvin S. Cobb
British Dictionary definitions for wartime
/ (ˈwɔːˌtaɪm) /
a period or time of war
(as modifier): wartime conditions
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