enmity

The two have an enmity that goes back more than four decades, with outbursts of fighting or outright war punctuated by periods of tense calm.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2026

But the enmity between the two sides is likely to endure.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026

After decades of enmity, in 2014 President Barack Obama opted to re-establish ties with the island in a historic but short-lived thaw.

From BBC ● Feb. 27, 2026

For that matter, his parasitic or symbiotic relationship with Jeffrey Epstein has been a matter of public record since at least 2003, when the Harvard Crimson earned his eternal enmity by reporting on it.

From Salon ● Nov. 30, 2025

Then it was back to Paris to work on the peace treaty ending the war, an experience that generated his lifelong enmity toward Franklin, who found him insufferably austere and obsessively diligent.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

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

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

But some supporters of the current leadership fear a court case may simply bring some of the old enmities and issues back to the fore.

From BBC ● Jan. 13, 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