aggression
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“We are always going to be on the front end of aggression with how we operate in the market,” Mariners president of baseball operations Jerry Dipoto said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2026
"This attack is unprecedented in both its scale and its level of aggression," Barrot said on the sidelines of a G7 foreign ministers' meeting in Paris.
From Barron's ● Nov. 10, 2026
Also, it's not then about the tactics, or the shape of it, or the aggression, or the effort because you just can't see it.
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2026
Honey bees are proving to be formidable competitors for food in the UK, and scientists have discovered that they frequently use aggression to drive other pollinators away from flowers.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026
I’ve never seen anybody take their aggression out on a chicken thigh quite like she did that day.
From "On the Come Up" by Angie Thomas
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Vietnam is expected to make similar use of its new outposts, albeit without directing aggressions against other countries, says Harrison Prétat, deputy director of CSIS’s Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2025
Such aggressions forced Pomos to disperse far from the lake, including to the North Bay.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2024
Overall, bonobos engaged in 2.8 times more aggressive interactions and 3 times as many physical aggressions.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 12, 2024
There were and are laws in this country that prohibit such discriminatory, hateful, criminal aggressions — and those who break those laws are subject to judicial punishments.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 12, 2023
The question was settled by those aggressions on national property which culminated in the bombardment of Fort Sumter.
From Liberty In The Nineteenth Century by Frederic May Holland
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