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Discover LudwigThe phrase "are not fought" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing conflicts, competitions, or struggles that do not occur or are not engaged in.
Example: "In this peaceful society, wars are not fought over trivial matters."
Alternatives: "are not waged" or "are not engaged in".
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WARS are not fought over it.
But crisis wars are not fought on paper.
Most wars are not fought for national security, but all the death and destruction are irreversible.
The problem, of course, is that elections are not fought among all adults.
Modern wars, he argued, are not fought only with military tools.
This idea is closely related to "just war pacifism" as developed in the last couple of decades by critics of the just war tradition: just war pacifism maintains that modern wars are not fought according to the standards of the just war theory because, for example, they make use of aerial bombardment and other means that do not adequately discriminate between combatants and noncombatants.
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Battles aren't fought in the fields but on buses, tubes and UK streets.
Our wars aren't fought against armies any more.
The war was not fought to stop the Holocaust.
But the 1960s War on Poverty was not fought according to that strategy.
It is not fought face to face nor through conventional means.
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