enmity
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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
Franco-German enmity helped stoke and shape the century of ethnic conflict; in post-World War II Europe, Franco-German reconciliation became the foundation of what many hoped would be an enduring era of postethnic politics.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 19, 2026
Burundi has been a natural ally of DR Congo for years because of its enmity with Rwanda.
From BBC • Dec. 12, 2025
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
I understood that the world was nothing: a mechanical chaos of casual, brute enmity on which' we stupidly impose our hopes and fears.
From "Grendel" by John Gardner
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