adversary
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Two sources also say 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. 2, 2026
Brovdi says matching enemy capacity is “the bare minimum” required to stay competitive with an adversary.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
Hybrid warfare or hybrid attacks are loose terms which tend to describe non-military methods, for example cyberattacks, sabotage or misinformation, designed to exert pressure and destabilise an adversary.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 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
You can’t have this kind of shared understanding if writer and reader are in an adversary relationship.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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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
The i Paper also leads with the spy chief's speech, quoting him as saying threats from foreign adversaries have quadrupled in a decade.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
Before he became Disney’s DIS 1.39%increase; up pointing triangle top lawyer, Horacio Gutiérrez faced powerful adversaries, defending Microsoft in its antitrust fights and taking on Apple while at Spotify.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
Once described as a perpetual prime minister-in-waiting, he finally got the top job in 2022, but only by forming an uneasy coalition with his one-time adversaries UMNO.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
Neither I nor the adversaries ever fatigued of it.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
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