PEACETIME Synonyms: 14 Similar and Opposite Words

peacetime

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as in peace

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Recent Examples of peacetime If anything, smaller nations see China’s military buildup — the largest by any country in peacetime — as the threat to regional security, not Japan’s. — Andy Browne, semafor.com, 2 June 2026 During his time at the Fed, the US economy experienced one of the strongest peacetime economic expansions in its history. — Chris Isidore, CNN Money, 22 June 2026 To conflate the two in public, alongside Xi, is to tell Beijing that one of the most aggressive components of its peacetime posture against the United States carries no political price. — Thomas Wright, The Atlantic, 18 May 2026 The key along the way is to avoid normalizing wartime mindsets in peacetime societies, says Hans Horan, a strategic analyst at The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies. — Anna Mulrine Grobe, Christian Science Monitor, 6 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for peacetime

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peace

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The province’s right to implement Islamic law was granted by Indonesia’s secular central government around 2005 as part of a peace deal to end a separatist insurgency.

— Bonny Chu, FOXNews.com, 3 July 2026
One prominent Cherokee named Katteuha co-wrote a letter to Benjamin Franklin during the Constitutional Convention in 1787, urging him to push for peace between the Native people and settlers.

— Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 3 July 2026

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