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enmity

[en-mi-tee] / ˈɛn mɪ ti /


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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

“The real evils in war,” St. Augustine once wrote, are “love of violence, revengeful cruelty, fierce and implacable enmity, wild resistance, and the lust of power.”

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 16, 2025

Burundi has been a natural ally of DR Congo for years because of its enmity with Rwanda.

From BBC Dec. 12, 2025

Avoiding her gaze, he clapped a cheering Ron on the back instead as, all enmity forgotten, the Gryffindor team left the pitch arm in arm, punching the air and waving to their supporters.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling

His father was killed at the bitter end of the war, fighting for Marshal Tito, the leader who managed to knit together the multi-ethnic state of Yugoslavia and suppress simmering enmities.

From Barron's Aug. 27, 2026

As England and France face each other in the third place World Cup match on Saturday, where ancient enmities may be on show, this cultural exchange is being seen as a win-win.

From BBC Jul. 17, 2026

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

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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