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animus

[an-uh-muhs] / ˈæn ə məs /
NOUN
hostility
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Nor did the Haitian respondents provide sufficient evidence that the contentious statements Trump and Noem made demonstrate that racial animus motivated the termination of Haitians’ TPS, the court held.

From Salon ● Jun. 27, 2026

Your point is that the justices don’t want to talk about racial animus because a lot of them don’t see race.

From Slate ● May 4, 2026

That animus may be most intense in the St. Louis suburb of Festus, where residents have voted out city council members who supported data-center construction.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026

Byers, who represented himself at trial, said he had no animus toward law enforcement and that it would be “out of character” for him to shoot at police.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2026

“You found a way to transfer your animus into a machine?”

From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan


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