hostile
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However he got in, he would have faced a hostile environment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026
Gaspar called the allegations about creating a hostile working environment and violating campaign finance violations “lies.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026
He added that the UK was ready to deal with hostile threats, but "we're not where we'd want to be".
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026
The observations indicate that TOI-561 b may be surrounded by a substantial atmosphere, although its conditions would be far too hostile for life as we know it.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2026
Surrounded on all sides by the Red Army and by units of the KGB, West Berlin floated like an island in a hostile, turbulent sea.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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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
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And even though there weren’t supposed to be any hostiles in the manor, she found her gun hand automatically straying to the Neutrino 2000.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
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