adversary
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Swarms of autonomous drones -- which "aim to neutralise an adversary through saturation" -- would be highly effective, and some states view them as a crucial strategic advantage, said Rickli.
From Barron's ● Nov. 14, 2026
Two sources also say Diddy has access to a “jailbroken” tablet where he watches movies and documentaries, including “Sean Combs: The Reckoning,” the Netflix docuseries produced by his adversary Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
Hybrid warfare or hybrid attacks are loose terms that tend to describe non-military methods, for example cyber-attacks, sabotage or misinformation, designed to exert pressure and destabilise an adversary.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
Brovdi says matching enemy capacity is “the bare minimum” required to stay competitive with an adversary.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
His chestnut skin was wrinkled and thoroughly spotted, as though age had been welcomed as a friend instead of an adversary.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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Part of the problem is that the U.S. military has operated some of its Middle Eastern bases for decades, confident that its adversaries were unable — or unwilling — to mount serious attacks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2026
But the UK's cyber chief said that they could be found and exploited more quickly and easily via "AI in the hands of our adversaries".
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
For someone like myself, who knows next to nothing about climbing, Krakauer powerfully elucidates the pull of a mountain like Everest and the trance-like state in which it ensnares its adversaries.
From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2026
“We’ve found advanced adversaries using this; we’ve found very unsophisticated adversaries using this.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026
Zero and infinity are two sides of the same coin—equal and opposite, yin and yang, equally powerful adversaries at either end of the realm of numbers.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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