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We are sharing a common enemy now—ISIS is trying to kill both of us.

Both Iran and the United States share a common enemy in the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS).

In some ways, the U.S. and its chosen proxies are fighting different wars, despite sharing a common enemy in ISIS.

Without a common enemy, the Naqshabandi and ISIS might resume their natural enmity.

War can be a centrifugal force, pulling together disparate groups who share a common enemy.

They are two Allied Armies working with me (or supposed to be working with me) against a common enemy.

A convention of the states at Albany proposed a union for defence against the common enemy.

He had patted the shoulder of the common enemy gently with his hand, and his smile had been odiously affable.

Peter was moved not only because this was his son but because here was a fellow human being grappling with the common enemy.

Wherever there was a town to be defended, women immediately took up arms and aided the men to keep off the common enemy.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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