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A country fighting together with another power against a common enemy often without a formal alliance.

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  • Thus, out of our five Warsaw Pact allies, we have one probable cobelligerent, two possibles, and two unlikelies.
  • The U.S. completed the draft of a peace treaty with Japan and communicated it to the 14 cobelligerent powers, including the Soviet Union.
  • He had to listen with great attention, Algarve being Zuwayza's cobelligerent against King Swemmel of Unkerlant and much the bigger power of the two.
  • As foreign minister of a kingdom with a large, unfriendly neighbor and an arrogant cobelligerent, Hajjaj didn't see the advisability of counting on much of anything.
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