adversaries

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But U.S. adversaries are increasingly turning to China’s financial system and the yuan to conduct business.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 26, 2026

In every negotiation, particularly with adversaries, everybody is going to look after their domestic political interests, so you will often get different words.

From Barron's • Jun. 25, 2026

“Ongoing cyber activity against our nation also presents the risk of adversaries collecting United States information now, and decrypting it later once large-scale quantum computers are operational,” the order said.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 23, 2026

Instead, the ceasefire extension jumpstarts a high-stakes scramble over 60 days for the two adversaries to achieve a lasting nuclear pact.

From BBC • Jun. 17, 2026

Their authors often were adversaries of the Indians they wrote about, usually did not speak the necessary languages, and almost always had an agenda other than empathetic description of indigenous folkways.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann