- plural of adversary.
adversaries
Example Sentences
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Once described as a perpetual prime minister-in-waiting, he finally got the top job in 2022, but only by forming an uneasy coalition with his one-time adversaries UMNO.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
By forcing adversaries to burn through expensive interceptors, the incoming swarms can exhaust allied air defenses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
It comes as the head of the RAF said the UK faced "unprecedented threats" from adversaries in space, coinciding with the creation of a new RAF unit set up to defend Britain's satellites.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
Photoreconnaissance satellites spy on what adversaries are doing.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
We still think of human disease as the work of an organized, modernized kind of demonology, in which the bacteria are the most visible and centrally placed of our adversaries.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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