Conflict between two actors in which neither directly engages the other.
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Examples for "proxy war"
Examples for "proxy war"
1The war is seen as proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran.
2The conflict is seen as a proxy war between Riyadh and Iran.
3The conflict is seen as a proxy war between Riyadh and Tehran.
4The proxy war has played out most intensely in Syria and Iraq.
5The conflict is seen as a proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran.
1Sport is the hunt, the chase; it is war by proxy.
2Even a discernible whiff of grace as Packer barges forward in his war by proxy with Murdoch.
3This is what they did when they loosed the armies of their puppet states against the Republic of Korea, in an evil war by proxy.
4Except in regard to Anne, a member of the Socialist Society, and thereafter always known as "Fred's Red", this was the cold war by proxy.
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