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hostility

[ho-stil-i-tee] / hɒˈstɪl ɪ ti /


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Hostility to entrepreneurship cost jobs, and unemployment remained high.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 15, 2025

Hostility toward its volunteers has seeped into mainstream politics.

From Slate • Oct. 22, 2025

"Hostility to human rights is at its heart and no amendments can salvage it," she said.

From BBC • Feb. 11, 2024

Hostility was never uniform, however, and kings like Louis the Pious granted Jewish people considerable freedoms.

From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023

Hostility bordering on open warfare was therefore the most frequent condition of English foreign relations.

From An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England by Cheyney, Edward Potts




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