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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a war from" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to indicate the origin or cause of a war, but it lacks context to be usable.
Example: "The conflict was a war from the deep-seated tensions between the two nations."
Alternatives: "a war arising from" or "a war stemming from".
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What separates a war from a "counterterrorism campaign"?
It is a war, from all senses of the meaning.
"Unfortunately there's always a war from the outside, going back to Alexander the Great.
The east African countries fought a war from 1998 to 2000, which claimed the lives of about 80,000 people.
The reason was not immediately clear; Iraq and Iran fought a war from 1980 to 1988 and relations remain cool.
"It was a war from the first day," he said, "and it's been a war every day since".
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"We are running away from a war and from the oppression of [Syrian president] Bashar [al-Assad].
Something like that happened in the Kosovo war -- an illegal war from a United Nations perspective, yet a necessary war from a humanitarian one, which ended up fortifying, not weakening, an international principle of forceful action for humanitarian ends.
They were fascinating — a diary of a troubled war from the ground up.
Frankly, it looks like a war zone from a helicopter.
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