enmity
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That leaves “Beef,” Lee Sung Jin’s anthology series about enmity, envy and the multiple ways that blood orange juice can be made, as the presumptive front-runner.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
Lee, a veteran labour activist and a witness to the 1989 crackdown, told the court in March he felt no enmity towards the Communist Party and hoped it would reform.
From Barron's ● May 18, 2026
But they may mark a more lasting and more dangerous turn toward enmity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026
Meeting face-to-face, the enmity continued as the two donned hard hats and traded blows over the true cost of renovating Federal Reserve buildings.
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2026
But enmity is mutually destructive, in East Asia and in the Middle East.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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As music “that transcended enmities to forge a connection between all the people born of this land,” Vargas Llosa writes, channeling Toño’s enthusiasm, the vals is the exemplary art form of a “mongrel nation.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026
But its removal lit up social media, rekindling historic enmities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2025
However, ECA chief executive Charlie Marshall feels the old enmities have to be set aside.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2023
Libyans from across the fragmented country have driven through old front lines regardless of bitter enmities to deliver aid to flood-stricken Derna this week, putting aside years of conflict between their divided leaders.
From Reuters ● Sep. 14, 2023
It was a “world criss-crossed by numerous patron-client relationships and family ties, in which major centers vied with one another in enmities that could endure for centuries.”
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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