adversaries
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"Once adversaries, the United States and Great Britain ultimately established a strong alliance," the White House said.
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026
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
Weil’s adversaries nicknamed the firm “We’ll Getcha & Mangle Ya,” for its aggressive—and successful—tactics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
The second season of the series finds the Harrigans locked in a power struggle, as internal divisions and external adversaries threaten the family.
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026
Their authors often were adversaries of the Indians they wrote about, usually did not speak the necessary languages, and almost always had an agenda other than empathetic description of indigenous folkways.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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