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While Platner's non-political background elevated him in a climate unfriendly to establishment candidates, several scandals emerged that rocked his campaign.

From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026

The rush for cooling units comes despite longstanding scepticism towards air conditioning in France, with eight in 10 people viewing it as environmentally unfriendly, according to one survey.

From Barron's ● Jul. 2, 2026

By February of last year, I was taxing leaders of the Air Force’s Barksdale B-52 base about the real problem, which government leaks even now admitted—conventional drones likely operated by unfriendly powers within U.S. airspace.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

One thing I can’t play is family unfriendly tunes.

From Salon ● Jun. 6, 2026

And although we continued our habit of meeting for cocoa in the evening, the sessions tended to be brief and unfriendly.

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro

The money piece never quite shook out on the avant-garde, and by the 1980s the lofts had mostly closed amid rising rents and unfriendlier civic attitudes toward semi-legal assembly.

From New York Times ● Mar. 17, 2022

And the gallant Red Admiral, the brave beautiful Red Admiral that had dared unfriendlier gales, trimmed his painted sails to a wind that was the breath of spring.

From Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man by Marie Conway Oemler

Some of the less grateful passages had been censored by Medora's own hand and the unfriendlier of the critics thus partially disarmed in advance.

From Under the Skylights by Henry Blake Fuller

The tale results in a flashback to a Dickensian-looking period when Sesame Street was known as “the unfriendliest street in town” and ancestors of all the current gang spent their days crabbing at one another.

From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2016

To find out that you are not so good or generous or magnanimous as you thought is, next to having other people find it out, probably the unfriendliest discovery that can be made.

From A Fearful Responsibility and Other Stories by William Dean Howells

He feels that he is engaged in single combat with Nature at her unfriendliest.

From And Even Now by Sir Max Beerbohm

The expression of the miner's eyes promised the unfriendliest kind of "capers" if he should ever get an opportunity to cut them.

From The Talking Leaves An Indian Story by William Osborn Stoddard

I am in Italy—in Genoa, to be sure, which of all Italian cities passes for the unfriendliest to the Muse: but that is my probation.

From Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch