hostile
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From this perspective, proposed cuts or new oversight mechanisms are defended as fiscally responsible or democratically accountable, even if critics see them as hostile to scientific autonomy.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026
No one has received a more hostile welcome in the high altitutde of the Azteca than the Americans who have been regular visitors here in World Cup qualifying.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026
Local media in Iran that a "hostile drone" was shot down over Tehran by air defences.
From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026
Relations between Iran and the US have been hostile for more than four decades.
From BBC • Jun. 7, 2026
Sprat went on to acknowledge that there were some hardliners who were so hostile to all aspects of ancient learning that they wanted to abolish Oxford and Cambridge.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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