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aggress

[uh-gres] / əˈgrɛs /


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For reasons beyond my understanding, Cross, an aspiring doctor, looks up to Rutkovsky, a flinty old timer with a propensity to aggress when he feels sad or mad or basically anything.

From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2024

“We have superior legal title to all the land west of the Missouri River that you and/or big oil seek to trespass and aggress on,” Bear Runner wrote in the letter.

From Slate ● May 3, 2019

She was not going to indulge another man talking over and around and to the side of her, trying to shout and aggress and ugly-cry his way out of trouble.

From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2019

And the actual aggress element of regular aggression doesn't have to be that aggressive.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 19, 2011

Tending or disposed to aggress; characterized by aggression; making assaults; unjustly attacking; as, an aggressive policy, war, person, nation.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster


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