aggressor

Example Sentences

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He warned this month that "any external aggressor will encounter an unbreakable resistance."

From Barron's • Mar. 29, 2026

Will then lurches into a tut-tutting recapitulation of the French army chief of staff’s public statement that his nation’s people must accept the risk of losing their children to protect France from an unnamed aggressor.

From Salon • Dec. 20, 2025

If the antidote is keeping the explosive Head at the top of the order and bringing an aggressor like Josh Inglis into the team, it creates the possibility of runs and wickets happening quickly.

From BBC • Nov. 26, 2025

Buddy, not Odd, comes off as the aggressor.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

Fired up with the conviction that their cause was a noble one and the enemy an aggressor, they joined the colors and went to war.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman