adversaries

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Matt Roush says, “While fantasy seems a long shot, ‘Fallout’s’ Walton Goggins and ‘The Boys’ adversaries Antony Starr and Karl Urban are all worthy.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026

Officials have warned that existing systems have not kept pace with increasingly sophisticated weapons possessed by potential adversaries.

From BBC • May 12, 2026

Interest in UFOs has been renewed in recent years as the US government probed numerous reports of seemingly supernatural aircraft, amid worries that adversaries could be testing highly advanced technologies.

From Barron's • May 8, 2026

The state’s ousted chief minister, 71-year-old Mamata Banerjee, is one of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s fiercest adversaries.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2026

Their authors often were adversaries of the Indians they wrote about, usually did not speak the necessary languages, and almost always had an agenda other than empathetic description of indigenous folkways.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann