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shadow wars

shadow wars is the plural of shadow war.

Meaning of shadow war

Noun

shadow war (countable and uncountable, plural shadow wars)

  1. A form of armed conflict, conducted secretly in the nexus between war and peace, where various actors utilise different means to achieve their goals.
    • The Iran-Israel conflict was once limited largely to a shadow war.2024 October 28, Scott Peterson, “Israeli strikes inside Iran cross a threshold. How will Iran respond?”, in The Christian Science Monitor

Questions about shadow wars

What is shadow wars the plural of?
Shadow wars is the plural of shadow war.

Words near shadow wars in the dictionary

  1. shadow trades
  2. shadow trading
  3. shadow volume
  4. shadow volumes
  5. shadow war
  6. shadow wars
  7. shadow witch
  8. shadow witches
  9. shadow work
  10. shadow zone
  11. shadow zones

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