A period of lessening tension between rivals.
1 We were divided into two camps, but there was a certain détente .
2 The move could interfere with a U.S.-China trade détente reached earlier this month.
3 But while television tilted towards détente , reality was not so sure.
4 How do the two women reach a détente about their divergent mothering styles?
5 We've devolved into a cold war with a child-centered détente .
6 They understood immediately that the era of détente was over.
7 Even less is it likely to imperil international détente .
8 The People's Republic itself may profit from a détente .
9 This détente feels a lot like the last one.
10 This debutante of détente is entered in this spring's Greenwich Concours d' Elegance in Connecticut.
11 If they respected her as a warrior, there might be hope for some kind of détente .
12 In Kingston, Caribbean leaders were supportive of U.S. détente with the region's most populous island nation.
13 Rapp took this as a sign of détente .
14 I'd neither vetoed nor embraced détente with Ryan.
15 The latest meeting announcement, which came Friday, suggests that détente might be setting in among the duelists.
16 If she opposes détente with Iran, she will look like a warmonger who prefers confrontation to diplomacy.
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