How to Use peace dividend in a Sentence

peace dividend

noun
  • The economy enjoyed an era of growth, helped by the peace dividend.
    — Stephen Fidler, WSJ, 8 Sep. 2022
  • These decades of relative calm came with a significant peace dividend.
    — Ivana Kottasová, CNN Money, 25 Dec. 2025
  • Too young to remember when defense spending dropped, the budget balanced and politicians bickered over a peace dividend.
    — George Stanley, jsonline.com, 30 Aug. 2021
  • European leaders cashed in their peace dividend on health care systems and neglected their militaries.
    — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 24 Mar. 2022
  • With the peace dividend that arrived in its wake, however, came an automotive renaissance.
    — Will Sabel Courtney, Robb Report, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Southeast Asians have benefited greatly from this peace dividend.
    — Huong Le Thu, Foreign Affairs, 18 Apr. 2023
  • There have been times over my career when, for instance, during the peace dividend time, when a Cessna light aircraft crashed on the lawn of the White House.
    — CBS News, 1 Jan. 2020
  • And a continuation of decades of the post-Cold War peace dividend may be equally improbable.
    — Howard Gleckman, Forbes, 26 May 2022
  • There is also hope of a peace dividend in the Great Lakes region, in northeast Nigeria, and in Somalia.
    — Homi Kharas, Foreign Affairs, 16 June 2015
  • Veterans were attending college on the GI Bill and many citizens felt entitled to a peace dividend.
    — John Avlon, CNN, 7 June 2022
  • Aside from power returning, the peace dividends from dismantling the Sweeney Fortified Compound are many.
    — Dan Sweeney, Sun-Sentinel.com, 14 Sep. 2017
  • Then-Representative Howard Berman turned to the peace dividend to devise a plan that would address both air pollution and dwindling defense jobs.
    — Indigo Olivier, The New Republic, 30 Jan. 2023
  • It is meant to offer the Palestinians a peace dividend, an incentive to accept his (perhaps) forthcoming political vision.
    — The Economist, 27 June 2019
  • Shea is genuinely pleased by how far crime has fallen, and optimistic that CompStat can take advantage of the peace dividend to improve community relations.
    — Chris Smith, Daily Intelligencer, 2 Mar. 2018
  • The peace dividend of the 1990s was shared with these agencies, especially the National Institutes of Health.
    — Mung Chiang, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025
  • That reflected the post-Cold War 'peace dividend', post-financial crisis austerity, and the end of the British presence in Iraq and Afghanistan.
    — Ian King, CNBC, 22 Apr. 2026
  • The post-Cold War peace dividend brought congressional budget caps in the late 1990s that had the armed services yearning to jettison aging or underutilized bases.
    — Sig Christenson, San Antonio Express-News, 3 May 2018
  • Many people from East Germany also expected a post-unification peace dividend that never materialized.
    — Amanda Taub, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2025

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