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aggressor

noun as in attacker

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What is disputed is which power Adolf Hitler, the war’s main aggressor, was most concerned with and which power made the biggest contribution to his defeat.

Unsurprisingly, given Susan’s bluntness and profanity—Mr. Coen almost seems to be writing in imitation of David Mamet, but with the women as the foul-mouthed aggressors—the evening doesn’t end with a gauzy clinch.

"The Bryansk Chemical Plant is a key facility of the aggressor state's military-industrial complex", the Ukrainian military said in an X post on Tuesday.

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She has this way of going between victim and aggressor.

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At the center of the controversy is a claim by federal agents that the activist was the aggressor, ramming into their vehicle.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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