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hot wars
n. (hot war English)
Usage examples of "hot wars".
As a combat veteran of four Arab-Israeli hot warsthe Six Day War of 1967, the Yom Kippur War of 1973, the invasion of Lebanon in 1982 to destroy the PLO, and the launch of the first Palestinian intifada in December of 1987 (he'd been too young for the War of Independence in 1948 and the Suez Crisis in 1956)he'd seen with his own eyes the worst human beings could do to each other.