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pacifist

[pas-uh-fist] / ˈpæs ə fɪst /


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After Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Germany dropped a long-standing pacifist tradition shaped by its dark World War II past and started ramping up spending to overhaul the armed forces.

From Barron's • Dec. 17, 2025

Another had her torching Japan’s pacifist postwar constitution, releasing a fiery-eyed specter wearing Japan’s wartime rising-sun flag.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 24, 2025

William Lloyd Garrison had been both an abolitionist and a pacifist.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 11, 2025

The student they shared an apartment with, the Wiccan pacifist without enemies, somehow seemed a convenient one.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 19, 2025

Area Teenager Chooses Poorly My mother, the pacifist, would kill me dead if she knew what I’d just done.

From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon




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