How to Use deterrence in a Sentence

deterrence

noun
  • The author argues that deterrence is no longer the best way to prevent war.
  • The hard question is how to achieve that kind of strong deterrence.
    — New York Times, 24 Jan. 2021
  • The hard question is how to achieve that kind of strong deterrence.
    — William J. Broad, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Jan. 2021
  • Not that the commission has done much on the deterrence front.
    — Jon Healey, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Mar. 2023
  • The move has aroused fears of a U.S. war with Russia, but the goal here is deterrence to prevent a war.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 2 Feb. 2022
  • Then the city hired him to help with focused deterrence.
    — Riley Robinson, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 May 2024
  • And the way to reestablish deterrence is to ignore the arms of the octopus and go straight for its head.
    — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 19 Apr. 2024
  • The United States may have reached the limits of deterrence.
    — Dara Lind, ProPublica, 28 Oct. 2020
  • This breaks our entire sense of how war and deterrence might work.
    — Saahil Desai, The Atlantic, 27 Sep. 2021
  • Israeli prison should be a form of deterrence, and not a reward.
    — Benjamin Weinthal, Fox News, 20 Feb. 2023
  • And, of course, defense is a backstop against the failure of deterrence.
    — The Editors, National Review, 10 Oct. 2022
  • Still, a few more rebounds would help, as would the presence of some rim deterrence.
    — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 16 Apr. 2021
  • Thus, the burden of deterrence and defense against it is not going to lighten in the near term.
    — Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Foreign Affairs, 18 Dec. 2024
  • This is all meant to project resolve, deterrence and to show that Putin's attempt to get the US out of Europe will fail.
    — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 25 Jan. 2022
  • Both deterrence and arms control are stronger when they are linked.
    — Michael Krepon, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2021
  • That’s why deterrence, in my view, works more often than not.
    — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 19 May 2024
  • For those flush with cash to last a lifetime, the staggering prices aren’t a deterrence.
    — Faris Mokhtar, Bloomberg.com, 23 June 2020
  • So maybe that will be a form of deterrence that's largely been lost since this war began.
    — CBS News, 18 May 2022
  • He was blocked once, a deterrence that wasn’t enough to keep him from scoring on three other drives.
    — Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2022
  • But when deterrence is the name of the game, the Tomcat accomplished its mission.
    — Alex Hollings, Popular Mechanics, 3 May 2019
  • Now the next step for Tyler is to adjust to these latest attempts at deterrence.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 6 Jan. 2023
  • They are being used as a form of deterrence for others.
    — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 8 June 2018
  • Break with the left’s refusal to change the asylum rules in order to send a stronger signal of deterrence to migrants.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 18 July 2021
  • Kangmei’s case just once again shows the lack of deterrence for financial fraud in the A-share market.
    — Bloomberg.com, 15 May 2020
  • And then two, to be able to defeat those adversaries in war should that deterrence fail.
    — CBS News, 15 Sep. 2022
  • Iron Dome is one of his tools for keeping the peace of deterrence and making time work in Israel’s favor.
    — Anshel Pfeffer, The Atlantic, 24 May 2021
  • The goal here is to provide a strong deterrence against the production spread and use of chemical weapons.
    — Fox News, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Now, deterrence is much more about who has the most capacity to make stuff.
    — Colin Demarest, Axios, 18 Dec. 2024
  • The goal should be to force the Russians to accept risk in their strategic arsenal to reduce U.S. two-peer deterrence requirements.
    — A. Wess Mitchell, Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2025
  • Should deterrence fail, missile defenses can help mitigate damage to the homeland and help protect the U.S. population.
    — Mohammed Soliman, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Apr. 2025

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