hostility
Example Sentences
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That can sound especially appealing as hyperscalers across the U.S. face increasing hostility over the construction of new data centers required to fuel the creation and deployment of powerful AI models.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 27, 2026
And the biggest plague, the one that never seems to go away, is deep-seated resentment for, often outright hostility to, mothers and the work of parenting.
From Salon • Jun. 24, 2026
What’s genuinely alarming is the broader indifference, if not hostility, that it reflects toward green-card holders.
From Slate • Jun. 23, 2026
He hit Phillips on the chest and his hostility was surely a contributing factor in Blundell swiping Bethell's left-arm spin to mid-wicket.
From BBC • Jun. 17, 2026
Wilkins and Franklin worked cordially at first, meeting for occasional coffee at the Strand Palace Hotel, but the relationship soon froze into frank, glacial hostility.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Vocabulary lists containing hostility
"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 16–19
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Franklin D. Roosevelt, "A Date That Will Live In Infamy" (1941)
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Maus I: My Father Bleeds History
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