aggress

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For reasons beyond my understanding, Cross, an aspiring doctor, looks up to Rutkovsky, a flinty old timer with a propensity to aggress when he feels sad or mad or basically anything.

From New York Times • Mar. 28, 2024

“We have superior legal title to all the land west of the Missouri River that you and/or big oil seek to trespass and aggress on,” Bear Runner wrote in the letter.

From Slate • May 3, 2019

“If he didn’t have a gun, why did he aggress toward us in that manner?”

From New York Times • Jan. 20, 2017

And if few of today’s naysayers any longer flinch at, say, sculpt, diagnose or liaise, even the flyweights among them will still explode at emote, aggress and surveil.

From The Guardian • Mar. 25, 2016

If the body do not aggress, the spirit will not seek revenge.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 by Various