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hostile

[hos-tl, -tahyl] / ˈhɒs tl, -taɪl /


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Gen. Harmeet Dhillon said the campus had tolerated an “appalling hostile educational environment” for Jewish and Israeli students.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

But Streeting said Monday he did not "want to speculate at this stage of the investigation", when asked whether it could be linked to a hostile state.

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026

In a review recently published in Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, the team explored how beneficial fungi might help convert hostile lunar and Martian regolith into a more biologically suitable material for growing crops.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

There are also concerns about the breach's national security implications, such as staff becoming targets for recruitment efforts by hostile foreign intelligence services.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

Race plays a major role—indeed, a defining role—in the current system, but not because of what is commonly understood as old-fashioned, hostile bigotry.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

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

“What is not so clear to him is how firmly he can trust the United States’ commitment to ending hostiles relations and providing security guarantees for his government should it denuclearize.”

From New York Times ● May 26, 2018

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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