antagonist
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Regardless of how you showed up, you were a brilliant antagonist for a morally flexible opportunist.
From Salon ● Jul. 14, 2026
It raises questions of structural integrity: When you depict a character like her as the antagonist of a show’s very likable heroine, you cannot then treat that antagonist as a heroine herself.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
Having gone toe-to-toe in 2020 with Root in “Perry Mason’s” first season, Rhys was thrilled Root was cast as Tom’s primary antagonist.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026
Finerenone is a non-steroidal mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist currently approved to treat CKD associated with type 2 diabetes.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 8, 2026
One of the leading researchers in the field, who helped write the 2009 Amherst paper, is Daniel Anderson, a professor at UMass Amherst, and he’s anything but a purebred television antagonist.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
But the reverse is also true, and former antagonists can be rehabilitated, welcomed once again into the president's good graces.
From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2026
Instead he uses the war as a pretext for urging modern Britain to “accelerate munitions production” in preparation for a “European War” whose antagonists remain largely unspecified.
From Salon ● Apr. 14, 2026
Neurocrine is betting that its experience working on CRF1 receptor antagonists could yield a better muscle-preserving treatment for obesity.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 6, 2026
The analysis focused on three drugs classified as GLP-1 receptor antagonists.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 11, 2026
Dropping his books, Ben turned to face the four antagonists who now bore down on him.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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