antagonist

An avid fan of Thai literature, he named it Thotsakan, the primary antagonist in the national epic, Ramakien.

From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026

Regardless of how you showed up, you were a brilliant antagonist for a morally flexible opportunist.

From Salon ● Jul. 14, 2026

It raises questions of structural integrity: When you depict a character like her as the antagonist of a show’s very likable heroine, you cannot then treat that antagonist as a heroine herself.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026

Having gone toe-to-toe in 2020 with Root in “Perry Mason’s” first season, Rhys was thrilled Root was cast as Tom’s primary antagonist.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026

Franklin regarded nature as an antagonist that would inevitably submit to force, good breeding, and Victorian discipline.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

These include SGLT2 inhibitors, GLP-1-based therapies, and nonsteroidal mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists in people with chronic kidney disease without diabetes.

From Science Daily ● May 29, 2026

But the reverse is also true, and former antagonists can be rehabilitated, welcomed once again into the president's good graces.

From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2026

Instead he uses the war as a pretext for urging modern Britain to “accelerate munitions production” in preparation for a “European War” whose antagonists remain largely unspecified.

From Salon ● Apr. 14, 2026

Neurocrine is betting that its experience working on CRF1 receptor antagonists could yield a better muscle-preserving treatment for obesity.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 6, 2026

The children appeared before her like antagonists who had overcome her; who had overpowered and sought to drag her into the soul’s slavery for the rest of her days.

From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin