How to Use psychological warfare in a Sentence

psychological warfare

noun
  • It’s not meant to be as extreme as psychological warfare, right?
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Dead behind the eyes, hair gelled to the gods, just munching away in an act of psychological warfare.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2023
  • These videos are key to the psychological warfare that underpins this flare-up.
    — Tamara Qiblawi, CNN, 16 Oct. 2023
  • The episode even begins with a bit of psychological warfare, which is always welcome on this show.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 15 Mar. 2024
  • There’s even more psychological warfare at play.
    — Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 13 Mar. 2026
  • The nail-biting mental and psychological warfare that kept fans on the edge of their seats is back, bigger than ever.
    — Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • The site may also be intended to serve as a tool of psychological warfare against Taiwan, the think tank said.
    — MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Oct. 2025
  • The mailboxes are back to wreak more psychological warfare on our Islanders, and some of them genuinely need it.
    — Kathleen Walsh, Vulture, 26 June 2026
  • Israel has criticized videos like this as psychological warfare.
    — Aurora Almendral, NBC News, 24 Apr. 2024
  • Israeli officials have labeled the practice a form of psychological warfare.
    — Aaron Boxerman, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2025
  • That’s a 90s rock playlist that could have come straight off a mix CD, deployed as psychological warfare in a basketball arena.
    — Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Another outlet joins the filth of psychological warfare against the Venezuelan people.
    — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 17 Oct. 2025
  • In the film, a playdate erupts into full scale psychological warfare as two mothers confront the damage of childhood bullying, while their daughters engage in mind games of their own.
    — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 18 Feb. 2025
  • The regime now frames the protests as the product of foreign psychological warfare, even as everyday Iranians struggle to survive.
    — Washington Post, 5 Jan. 2026
  • That’s what helps in psychological warfare and information warfare.
    — Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 28 Mar. 2026
  • But Adonis’ latest melee isn’t just a physical one; this match is also intense emotional and psychological warfare.
    — Ineye Komonibo, refinery29.com, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried engage in some psychological warfare.
    — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Ukrainian forces are waging a campaign of psychological warfare against North Korean troops in a bid to encourage them to surrender.
    — Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 26 Dec. 2024
  • Molly initially doesn’t know that Dave is dating Lauren, which makes Lauren wonder if all her gushing is a form of psychological warfare.
    — Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 14 Feb. 2025
  • They are given just over a year to prepare before Terrance returns to begin Junior’s pre-mission tests, which begin to creep into a kind of psychological warfare.
    — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Oct. 2023
  • Har recounted his ordeal in Hamas’s tunnels—the lack of sunlight, starvation, constant threats and the psychological warfare conducted by his captors.
    — Amelie Botbol, Sun Sentinel, 28 Mar. 2024
  • An evening of seemingly polite dinner conversation and catching up turns into a night of psychological warfare as the two women reveal the scars of the past and the wounds of the present while their two young daughters play mind games of their own.
    — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Indeed, the greatness of Fendrix’s score comes largely in its scale, which gives the film’s mostly intimate story of three people engaged in psychological warfare within the confines of a basement an epic grandeur.
    — Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Further revelations that the US had supplied Nicaraguan death squads with psychological warfare guides would not help that public relations problem.
    — Justin Ling, WIRED, 1 Feb. 2024
  • What begins as a desperate family bonding trip rapidly devolves into savage violence and brutal psychological warfare.
    — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 3 June 2026
  • Information operations and psychological warfare are a key component of modern war — and arguably nowhere is this truer than in the Israel-Islamist conflict.
    — Sean Durns, The Washington Examiner, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Along with the documentation of material destruction and displacement, the movie is a record of psychological warfare, of the effort to demolish morale, suppress energy, break will.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2024
  • As the operation unfolded, Ukrainian soldiers posted video of themselves in front of village signs before vanishing, part of a parallel campaign of psychological warfare.
    — Tim Lister, CNN, 17 Aug. 2024
  • Advertisement In the interrogation room, things shift to psychological warfare.
    — Jp Mangalindan, Time, 15 Aug. 2025
  • All in all, Miranda engaging in psychological warfare and sloppy catfighting with Larry over creative control of Fatwa!
    — Larry Fitzmaurice, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2024

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