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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Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2024
And herein lies another reason Mr. Netanyahu is not rushing toward a truce, says Mitchell Barak, an analyst who worked with him in the 1990s.
—Dina Kraft, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Oct. 2024
Two days earlier, two lower-ranking Hezbollah officials had also talked about a Lebanon truce without making a linkage with Gaza.
—NBC News, 9 Oct. 2024
About a decade ago, the companies agreed to a truce, but that proved to be only temporary.
—Daxia Rojas, Fortune Europe, 26 Sep. 2024
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Noun
Although Israel has routinely ignored U.S. advice in recent months in its prosecution of the wars in Gaza and Lebanon and in negotiations over truces, this time Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu apparently heeded the calls to calibrate targeting.
—Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2024
And herein lies another reason Mr. Netanyahu is not rushing toward a truce, says Mitchell Barak, an analyst who worked with him in the 1990s.
—Dina Kraft, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Oct. 2024
Two days earlier, two lower-ranking Hezbollah officials had also talked about a Lebanon truce without making a linkage with Gaza.
—NBC News, 9 Oct. 2024
About a decade ago, the companies agreed to a truce, but that proved to be only temporary.
—Daxia Rojas, Fortune Europe, 26 Sep. 2024
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“Truce.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/truce. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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