Truce
noun
A temporary stop in fighting agreed by both sides.
After years of war, the two countries finally agreed to a truce.
Often appears as...
- declare a truce
- agree to a truce
noun
A temporary pause or break from arguing or disagreement.
The two siblings agreed to a truce and stopped arguing for a while.
Often appears as...
- call a truce
- temporary truce
noun
A temporary stop in fighting agreed by both sides.
After years of war, the two countries finally agreed to a truce.
Often appears as...
- declare a truce
- agree to a truce
noun
A temporary pause or break from arguing or disagreement.
The two siblings agreed to a truce and stopped arguing for a while.
Often appears as...
- call a truce
- temporary truce
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Temporary Nature
Emphasizes the short-term aspect and potential for renewal of conflict.
The truce lasted just a week before clashes resumed.
Pro Tip 2/3Mutual Agreement
Both parties must agree to a truce; it cannot be one-sided.
The warring factions are negotiating to reach a truce.
Pro Tip 3/3Formal Declaration
Truces are often formalized through a declaration or signing ceremony.
Government and rebel leaders signed a truce amid celebrations.
Pro Tip 1/3Temporary Nature
Emphasizes the short-term aspect and potential for renewal of conflict.
The truce lasted just a week before clashes resumed.
Pro Tip 2/3Mutual Agreement
Both parties must agree to a truce; it cannot be one-sided.
The warring factions are negotiating to reach a truce.
Pro Tip 3/3Formal Declaration
Truces are often formalized through a declaration or signing ceremony.
Government and rebel leaders signed a truce amid celebrations.
Pro Tip 1/3Temporary Nature
Emphasizes the short-term aspect and potential for renewal of conflict.
The truce lasted just a week before clashes resumed.
Pro Tip 2/3Mutual Agreement
Both parties must agree to a truce; it cannot be one-sided.
The warring factions are negotiating to reach a truce.
Pro Tip 3/3Formal Declaration
Truces are often formalized through a declaration or signing ceremony.
Government and rebel leaders signed a truce amid celebrations.
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Video examples
Jeremy Gilley: One day...
Why don't we all team up? Why don't we bring truce to life? Why don't you support the process of the largest ever global truce? We'll make a new film about this process. We'll utilize sport and football. On the Day of Peace, there's thousands of football matches all played, from the favelas of Brazil to wherever it might be. So, utilizing all of these ways
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Bruce Aylward: How we'll...
they have got to dive headlong into some of the toughest, densest urban slums in the world. They've got to trek under sweltering suns to some of the most remote, difficult to reach places in the world. And they also have to dodge bullets, because we have got to operate during shaky cease-fires and truces
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Why do we kiss under...
Hearing the news, Frigg became so overjoyed that she transformed the mistletoe from a symbol of death into one of peace and love. She mandated a one-day truce for all fights, and that everyone embrace beneath its branches when they passed
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Grammar's great divide:...
The argument over the Oxford comma has raised such strong passions over the years that a sort of truce has been reached. The common wisdom is that its use is optional, and depends on whether it will help to avoid confusion. For one thing,
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Choose your own TED Talk...
choice with license agreements but now the concept of adding choice to something to a story something that is essentially linear many of you might be reminded of these books here this is a truce your own adventure book which I
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The biology of our best...
and exchanging addresses so they could meet after the war. That truce kept going until the officers had to arrive and said, "We will shoot you unless you go back to trying to kill each other." And all it took here was hours
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Seal Sends Text Messages...
legally protected but some fishermen still killed them other seals get tangled in the nets and drowned but mom researchers are working with fishermen to strike a truce they share information about the seals relatively
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Trita Parsi: Iran and...
Who will risk peace? This is an analogy that is deliberately aimed at eliminating diplomacy, and when you eliminate diplomacy, you make war inevitable. In an ideological conflict, there can be no truce,
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Ramses, Master of...
war machines. Ramses recorded the victory as a massacre. But in reality, it was more of a draw. The two kings agreed a truce, resulting in the world's first recorded peace treaty.
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Greatest Fights In The...
the truce between otters and cayman has for a brief moment been broken
Video examples
Jeremy Gilley: One day...
Why don't we all team up? Why don't we bring truce to life? Why don't you support the process of the largest ever global truce? We'll make a new film about this process. We'll utilize sport and football. On the Day of Peace, there's thousands of football matches all played, from the favelas of Brazil to wherever it might be. So, utilizing all of these ways
Video examples
Bruce Aylward: How we'll...
they have got to dive headlong into some of the toughest, densest urban slums in the world. They've got to trek under sweltering suns to some of the most remote, difficult to reach places in the world. And they also have to dodge bullets, because we have got to operate during shaky cease-fires and truces
Video examples
Why do we kiss under...
Hearing the news, Frigg became so overjoyed that she transformed the mistletoe from a symbol of death into one of peace and love. She mandated a one-day truce for all fights, and that everyone embrace beneath its branches when they passed
Video examples
Grammar's great divide:...
The argument over the Oxford comma has raised such strong passions over the years that a sort of truce has been reached. The common wisdom is that its use is optional, and depends on whether it will help to avoid confusion. For one thing,
Video examples
Choose your own TED Talk...
choice with license agreements but now the concept of adding choice to something to a story something that is essentially linear many of you might be reminded of these books here this is a truce your own adventure book which I
Video examples
The biology of our best...
and exchanging addresses so they could meet after the war. That truce kept going until the officers had to arrive and said, "We will shoot you unless you go back to trying to kill each other." And all it took here was hours
Video examples
Seal Sends Text Messages...
legally protected but some fishermen still killed them other seals get tangled in the nets and drowned but mom researchers are working with fishermen to strike a truce they share information about the seals relatively
Video examples
Trita Parsi: Iran and...
Who will risk peace? This is an analogy that is deliberately aimed at eliminating diplomacy, and when you eliminate diplomacy, you make war inevitable. In an ideological conflict, there can be no truce,
Video examples
Ramses, Master of...
war machines. Ramses recorded the victory as a massacre. But in reality, it was more of a draw. The two kings agreed a truce, resulting in the world's first recorded peace treaty.
Video examples
Greatest Fights In The...
the truce between otters and cayman has for a brief moment been broken
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Quote examples
William Hull
American Soldier
In a few days an officer came to our camp, under a flag of truce, and informed Hamilton, then a captain of artillery, but afterwards the aid of General Washington, that Captain Hale had been arrested within the British lines condemned as a spy, and executed that morning.
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Joan of Arc
French Saint
It is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the duke is to turn over the city of Paris at the end of fifteen days. Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly.
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Henry Rollins
American Musician
One of the nice things about a favorite pop song is that it's an unconditional truce on judgment and musical snobbery. You like the song because you just do, and there need not be any further criticism.
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Bob Woodward
American Journalist
I don't think there will ever be a permanent truce, but I believe the media needs to be more careful and be willing to count to 10 before rushing on the air or into print.
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Michelle Pfeiffer
American Actress
The whole celebrity thing never is normal and I think the fuller your life is, the more you are able to just kind of call a truce with it on a good day.
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Dean Ornish
American Educator
As a veteran of the diet wars, I think it's time to call a truce. Rather than hear experts argue, most people want practical information they can use.
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Thomas McGuane
American Author
I'm a really a fanatical reviser, and there comes a point where I have to declare a truce with the text, or I'll keep fooling with it forever.
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Elliott Abrams
American Lawyer
The truce brokered by Egypt between Israel and Hamas depends, above all, on the borders between Egypt, Gaza and Israel.
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Sun Tzu
Chinese Philosopher
When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.
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John B. S. Haldane
British Scientist
There can be no truce between science and religion.
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William Hull
American Soldier
In a few days an officer came to our camp, under a flag of truce, and informed Hamilton, then a captain of artillery, but afterwards the aid of General Washington, that Captain Hale had been arrested within the British lines condemned as a spy, and executed that morning.
Quote examples
Joan of Arc
French Saint
It is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the duke is to turn over the city of Paris at the end of fifteen days. Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly.
Quote examples
Henry Rollins
American Musician
One of the nice things about a favorite pop song is that it's an unconditional truce on judgment and musical snobbery. You like the song because you just do, and there need not be any further criticism.
Quote examples
Bob Woodward
American Journalist
I don't think there will ever be a permanent truce, but I believe the media needs to be more careful and be willing to count to 10 before rushing on the air or into print.
Quote examples
Michelle Pfeiffer
American Actress
The whole celebrity thing never is normal and I think the fuller your life is, the more you are able to just kind of call a truce with it on a good day.
Quote examples
Dean Ornish
American Educator
As a veteran of the diet wars, I think it's time to call a truce. Rather than hear experts argue, most people want practical information they can use.
Quote examples
Thomas McGuane
American Author
I'm a really a fanatical reviser, and there comes a point where I have to declare a truce with the text, or I'll keep fooling with it forever.
Quote examples
Elliott Abrams
American Lawyer
The truce brokered by Egypt between Israel and Hamas depends, above all, on the borders between Egypt, Gaza and Israel.
Quote examples
Sun Tzu
Chinese Philosopher
When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths, it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.
Quote examples
John B. S. Haldane
British Scientist
There can be no truce between science and religion.
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