It's a common eggcorn, I think only by nonnative speakers to use "rage war" instead of "wage war", probably due to the fact that "rage" and "raging" can be used for verb and adjective with "war" as the subject.
Due to this confusion, a linter will have to be careful not to flag false positives.
Examples of mistakes:
- Of course any ideas regarding eliminating entire cultures, raging war, or taking of life en-masse should probably not be acted on
- Not rage war with battleships to gain orbital control and then rage war with land and atmosphere vehicles to finally seize the opposing planet.
- Jim can tell them about how the empires rises and falls, and tell how people once loved and raged war
- rage war against aliens and conservative humans alike
Must not flag:
- They can lock their country down all they want, but a raging war all around them will affect them both in the short term
- What's the logic of dissing paper straws in a comment raging against war and AI as threats to the environment?
- Where's the rage war?!
- For, oozing from the mountain's side, where raged the war, a dark-red tide was curdling in the streamlet blue.
- The August 2022 attack is part of a raging shadow war
- The W3C is not a relevant institution anymore so this raging privacy war will be wholly inconsequential.
- The Raging Evolutionary War Between Humans and Covid-19
- widely expected to clinch a third seven-year term in office despite the raging civil war
It's a common eggcorn, I think only by nonnative speakers to use "rage war" instead of "wage war", probably due to the fact that "rage" and "raging" can be used for verb and adjective with "war" as the subject.
Due to this confusion, a linter will have to be careful not to flag false positives.
Examples of mistakes:
Must not flag: