nemesis
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Bit by bit, Disney is continuing to shape itself into something more like its former nemesis, Netflix, including by diving more into the vertical-video and A.I. future while licensing visual podcasts as TV shows.
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026
Messengers on horseback cross the linen field of vision and bring Harold to meet his nemesis and relative by marriage, Duke William, aka William the Bastard.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
When Athing Mu-Nikolayev, Hodgkinson's American nemesis who beat her to gold at the Tokyo Olympics and Eugene 2022, slipped off the scene, the Briton had hoped to dominate the 800m.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
After all, he pointed out, even Iran was making accommodations with the United States, its longtime nemesis.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2026
And that was at once the nemesis and the attraction: the Little Baldy, the Rio Puerco, and Dixonburgh Creek were for the people who lived in Milagro.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
But that teaches another more cautionary lesson about collecting nemeses: Salieri never figured out how to channel his gnawing envy into motivation.
From Salon ● May 16, 2026
Finally, ceilings necessarily keep any number of nemeses out.
From Slate ● May 9, 2026
“The Copenhagen Test” presents a potentially irritating conceit—everything Alexander sees and hears is available for viewing by his nemeses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025
The bad news for Pope is he is about to come up against one of his nemeses in Indian magician Jasprit Bumrah.
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2025
Folks informed on business rivals, ancient nemeses, and neighbors, recounting old conversations where the traitors had uttered forbidden sympathies.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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