adversary
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“What we’ve seen is that you don’t want to be caught in a high-intensity conflict where your adversary has access to deep arsenals of long-range strike capabilities and not have them yourself,” said Hoffmann.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
Two sources also shared that Diddy has access to a “jailbroken” tablet where he watches movies and documentaries, including “Sean Combs: The Reckoning,” the Netflix docuseries produced by his adversary Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
A secret capability can’t deter an adversary that doesn’t know it exists.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
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
Arguments can make contracts sound, “if they are one’s own, binding and authoritative, if of one’s adversary, the reverse.”
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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For someone like myself, who knows next to nothing about climbing, Krakauer powerfully elucidates the pull of a mountain like Everest and the trance-like state in which it ensnares its adversaries.
From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2026
Instead, he imposed and removed tariffs at will on adversaries and allies alike often in the service of some personal whimsy, drawing at least one prominent rebuke from the courts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
“We’ve been friends a long time and, yes, we’ve been adversaries as well, but most of the time we’ve been friends,” Villaraigosa told The Times.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
Potential adversaries will have to consider that any shipping container at an Australian wharf could have a Ghost Shark in it, he said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026
Afterwards, as we waited by Keith’s van for a promised lift to the trailhead, we stood in an awkward silence, like adversaries in a property dispute waiting to be summoned into the judge’s chambers.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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