world war
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of world war
First recorded in 1910–15
Example Sentences
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For example, children born to mothers who endured famine in the Netherlands during the second world war were more likely to develop heart disease, type 2 diabetes and schizophrenia later in life.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 17, 2026
Eliot theorized in his 1925 poem “The Hollow Men,” a bleak assessment of life after the first world war.
From Barron's ● Jun. 1, 2026
There’s nothing coincidental in the fact that military schools also rose up around then, and that they kept multiplying past the first world war and up to the second one.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026
Yet somehow, a world war posed less of a threat to Hearts than the disastrous tenure of a Russian-Lithuanian owner who nearly spent the club into oblivion in the 2010s.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
She had seen many mountains that even a world war had not destroyed.
From "A Place to Belong" by Cynthia Kadohata
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