aggressor

Example Sentences

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Verhoeven, in just his second professional boxing fight, was the clear aggressor for long spells, stunning generational great Usyk in a way nobody expected.

From BBC • May 23, 2026

He warned this month that "any external aggressor will encounter an unbreakable resistance."

From Barron's • Mar. 29, 2026

But attorneys for the county argued in court filings that it was Seitz who was actually the aggressor.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2026

Will then lurches into a tut-tutting recapitulation of the French army chief of staff’s public statement that his nation’s people must accept the risk of losing their children to protect France from an unnamed aggressor.

From Salon • Dec. 20, 2025

Once again, the players seemed to switch personalities as they played, with Petrosian as the aggressor.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady