aggressor

Example Sentences

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He warned this month that "any external aggressor will encounter an unbreakable resistance."

From Barron's • Mar. 29, 2026

Will then lurches into a tut-tutting recapitulation of the French army chief of staff’s public statement that his nation’s people must accept the risk of losing their children to protect France from an unnamed aggressor.

From Salon • Dec. 20, 2025

"The aggressor", he concludes, "will observe, adjust, repeat – until they get through".

From BBC • Nov. 16, 2025

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.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025

The audience broke into applause, with yells of "Shame to the aggressor! Shame to the aggressor!"

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau