truced; trucing
: to make a truce
: to end with a truce
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Noun
There's been an uneasy truce between her and her parents for the past several months.
both sides agreed to a 24-hour truce beginning at midnight on Christmas Eve
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John Spencer, Foreign Affairs, 18 Nov. 2024
Every 20 minutes in the movie, there’s an elimination, so to speak, with anonymous voting and truces and late-night conversations.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 15 Nov. 2024
The senior diplomat and the source briefed on the talks told Reuters that the 60-day truce has replaced a proposal last month by the United States and other countries that envisioned a ceasefire for 21 days as a prelude to 1701 coming into full force.
—Timour Azhari, USA TODAY, 30 Oct. 2024
In his speech, Netanyahu did not mention the truce plan, either.
—Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2024
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Noun
Hamas had agreed to the truce in May 2021 after an 11-day Israeli air campaign in Gaza that followed Hamas’s firing of 150 rockets into Israel, an opening barrage that killed two Israeli civilians and wounded dozens more.
—John Spencer, Foreign Affairs, 18 Nov. 2024
Every 20 minutes in the movie, there’s an elimination, so to speak, with anonymous voting and truces and late-night conversations.
—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 15 Nov. 2024
The senior diplomat and the source briefed on the talks told Reuters that the 60-day truce has replaced a proposal last month by the United States and other countries that envisioned a ceasefire for 21 days as a prelude to 1701 coming into full force.
—Timour Azhari, USA TODAY, 30 Oct. 2024
In his speech, Netanyahu did not mention the truce plan, either.
—Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2024
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“Truce.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/truce. Accessed 29 Nov. 2024.
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