Cold war
Cold war noun - A state of political hostility that existed from 1945 until 1990 between countries led by the Soviet Union and countries led by the United States.
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Synonyms for Cold war
Warfare
Warfare noun - A lack of agreement or harmony.
Usage example: that troubled household seems to be almost constantly in a state of warfare
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- hostility and cold war
- hostility and warfare
- contest and cold war
- contest and warfare
- confrontation and cold war
- confrontation and warfare
- struggle and cold war
- struggle and warfare
- conflict and cold war
- conflict and warfare
- variance and cold war
- variance and warfare
- dissension and cold war
- dissension and warfare
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- For the most part though, most corporate warfare is of the "cold war" variety, fought in lots of small skirmishes conducted by deniable proxies.
Source: Corporate Warfare - Instead of open warfare, decades of ideological antagonism and proxy wars followed in what became known as the Cold War.
Source: Inevitable Mutual Betrayal -
The world is being torn apart by a new Cold War and atrocities like endless warfare and human experimentation.
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