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détente
détente
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Noun
détente (plural détentes)
- (chiefly politics) A relaxing of tension, especially between countries.
- 2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin 2013, p. 318:
- Analogous structural and political constraints stood in the way of a lasting détente between Germany and Britain.
- 2014, The Guardian, 14 Jan 2014:
- No step the United States could take anywhere in the world would bring strategic benefits as great as detente with Iran.
- 2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin 2013, p. 318:
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