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"ref": "2014 September 11, Uri Friedman, “Is It Peacetime or Wartime in America?”, in The Atlantic",
"text": "After all, it was less than a year and a half ago that Obama promised, in an address at National Defense University, to remove America from the \"perpetual war footing\" it had assumed since the September 11 attacks.",
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"ref": "2021 September 8, “Network News: RMT on \"war footing\" in response to workforce cutback threats”, in RAIL, number 939, page 15",
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"ref": "2023 September 30, Patrick Wintour, “‘No turning back’: how the Ukraine war has profoundly changed the EU”, in The Guardian, →ISSN",
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "state of preparedness for waging war",
"word": "sotajalka"
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"sense": "state of preparedness for waging war",
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"word": "Kriegsfuß"
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"sense": "state of preparedness for waging war",
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"word": "stan gotowości"
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"code": "nl",
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"sense": "on a war footing",
"word": "op voet van oorlog"
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"code": "fr",
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"sense": "on a war footing",
"word": "sur le pied de guerre"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "on a war footing",
"word": "auf Kriegsfuß"
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "on a war footing",
"word": "sul piede di guerra"
},
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"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "on a war footing",
"word": "em pé de guerra"
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"roman": "na tropé vojný",
"sense": "on a war footing",
"word": "на тропе́ войны́"
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"sense": "on a war footing",
"word": "en pie de guerra"
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"sense": "state of preparedness for waging war",
"word": "sotajalka"
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"sense": "state of preparedness for waging war",
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"sense": "state of preparedness for waging war",
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"sense": "on a war footing",
"word": "op voet van oorlog"
},
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"sense": "on a war footing",
"word": "sur le pied de guerre"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "on a war footing",
"word": "auf Kriegsfuß"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "on a war footing",
"word": "sul piede di guerra"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "on a war footing",
"word": "em pé de guerra"
},
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"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "na tropé vojný",
"sense": "on a war footing",
"word": "на тропе́ войны́"
},
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "on a war footing",
"word": "en pie de guerra"
}
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"word": "war footing"
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