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hostile

[hos-tl, -tahyl] / ˈhɒs tl, -taɪl /


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A packed Commons chamber, with curveball questions, hostile opposition politicians and the biggest TV and online audience of the week will be a world away from his nine years as Mayor of Greater Manchester.

From BBC Aug. 29, 2026

The department halted multiple ongoing projects for “being hostile to vehicles” and ended a grant that would have made a street intersection in Boston safer for pedestrians but could “impede vehicle capacity and speed.”

From Salon Aug. 27, 2026

Even so, the blistering Pasadena sun produced an unusually hostile crowd environment.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 24, 2026

Talks to merge with a competitor fell apart in the spring, and a crosstown rival has made a $15 billion hostile takeover bid.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 23, 2026

And yet a pernicious seed had been planted—a perception of me as disgruntled and vaguely hostile, lacking some expected level of grace.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

Meanwhile, around 3,000 Pakistanis have left Iran since hostiles began.

From BBC Jun. 20, 2025

Another 2020, another arrival from extraterrestrial hostiles, this time with the ability to hunt with surgical precision based on nothing but sound.

From The Guardian Jan. 6, 2020

The kitchen loves its star patty so much that the cooks sometimes act as if they’re protecting it from hostiles — or the condiments Jaffe mentioned.

From Washington Post Aug. 20, 2018

While space traveling on branching paths, the player lands on nodes that become arenas with attacking hostiles in fun, turn-based fights in a retro, 8-bit presentation.

From Washington Times Jul. 7, 2017

The Retrieval Squad put down just inside the boundary and began an immediate scan for possible hostiles.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer




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