adversary
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He said the deal includes a rule that no US adversary can maintain a military presence in Greenland or "make sensitive investments in Greenland, without our express written approval".
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
We are increasing readiness against existing threats, and the United States has on-orbit space control weapons capable of defending the Joint Force against hostile adversary action.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
"The US has on-orbit space control weapons capable of defending the Joint Force against hostile adversary action," a US Space Force spokesperson said in a statement that did not provide specifics on the weapons.
From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026
The Strait of Hormuz is, by some accounts, named for a Zoroastrian deity destined to emerge victorious after a 9,000-year standoff with an adversary.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 8, 2026
The cat uttered another banshee scream and stepped forward with a stiff-legged, sideways movement, his squinting, terrible eyes fixed on his enormous adversary.
From "The Incredible Journey" by Sheila Burnford
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Photoreconnaissance satellites spy on what adversaries are doing.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has called for national legislation requiring frontier-model testing, employee-level access for external evaluators and tighter controls for adversaries in China, they say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Created during the Cold War, that system was designed to prevent sensitive technology from reaching adversaries or unauthorized third parties and to give Washington oversight of how U.S. weapons were used abroad.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
A crisis may create opportunities for adversaries elsewhere, increasing pressure on finite inventories of weapons.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
“You’ve won against the biggest adversaries there are—life and death. And now none of us ever have to grieve again.”
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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