How to Use adversarial in a Sentence

adversarial

adjective

• Boys and girls could be friends, but relations between men and women were either erotic or adversarial.
  — Lili Owen Rowlands, The New Yorker, 18 Sep. 2024
• Nothing about a self-driving car understands what’s adversarial or not.
  — Lauren Goode, WIRED, 12 Sep. 2024
• If the device is taken by the adversarial agency upon landing, the disk encryption keys are still in memory.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 14 Nov. 2020
• Some might argue that this is inevitable in a nation with a system of adversarial, competitive politics.
  — Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, 5 Nov. 2020
• Richard Taruskin must surely be our most ferociously adversarial writer on music.
  — Nicholas Kenyon, The New York Review of Books, 1 Dec. 2020
• Cyber is an adversarial industry, and while regulations may help, bad actors don’t live by regulations and will always have a speed advantage.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024
• This gave the researchers a sense of how well the adversarial prompt performed.
  — Discover Magazine, 31 July 2023
• This kind of rhetoric erodes public trust in our adversarial system of justice as well as the trust clients must have in their lawyers.
  — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 13 Aug. 2024
• The audience of 1,600-plus, all primed to cheer the speakers’ adversarial views, found less and less to react to as the panel digressed.
  — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2023
• The primary shift has been the rise of China as an adversarial state.
  — Daniel Foster, National Review, 30 Nov. 2023
• These adversarial twins will have to learn to get over their differences and trust each other in order to save themselves and save the world.
  — Joe Otterson, Variety, 3 Dec. 2021
• Biden has taken a far more adversarial stance than Trump against Putin.
  — Washington Post, 10 June 2021
• That process is adversarial, experts say, even though the water will still stay in Arizona — with Navajos who live there and need it.
  — Erin Patrick O'Connor, Washington Post, 14 May 2022
• But critics say that the city’s adversarial posture is a knee-jerk response to claims of abuse at the hands of city police, one that helps to mask the full extent of official abuse.
  — Tom Robbins, The New Yorker, 24 May 2021
• Then, Kelley left the meeting, and the discussion took a more adversarial tone.
  — Robin Goist, cleveland, 4 Oct. 2021
• But now the two sides have returned to a fully adversarial posture.
  — Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2022
• Though awareness and tools can help mitigate the long-term cost of divorce, the system does not need to be so adversarial, drawn-out, and expensive.
  — Rebecca Feinglos, Fortune, 23 Aug. 2023
• An even more worrisome prospect is that an adversarial hacker could break a military’s LLM and prompt it to spill out its data sets from the back end.
  — Gerrit De Vynck, Washington Post, 20 Feb. 2024
• All need to work from a common set of data and IT practices, and security teams cannot be adversarial or siloed.
  — Jim Richberg, Forbes, 25 Aug. 2022
• The legal profession is unique in that every part of it is adversarial.
  — Dallas News, 23 Jan. 2022
• So began the distrust of sightseers felt by the villagers in the fishing towns, for whom the elements were real and adversarial forces rather than poignant symbols.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2022
• Does anyone imagine that the GOP is going to play a role in reassembling a robust, adversarial press in the numerous news deserts that have bloomed across the country?
  — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 28 Jan. 2023
• Leaders don’t need to see unions as adversarial—and a new class teaches them that organized labor might even be good for business.
  — Gabriela Riccardi, Quartz, 2 Feb. 2023
• But the adversarial nature of the process can be highly productive.
  — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 23 Dec. 2022
• Bankman-Fried and Zhao both rose to prominence in the cryptocurrency boom and quickly established an adversarial back-and-forth.
  — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Feb. 2023
• The two trials of Donald Trump served as a reminder that even if an adversarial party controls the House, the Senate controls the outcome of an impeachment.
  — Dallas News, 10 Jan. 2023
• Finally, a fourth approach that some foreign leaders took was to maintain an adversarial posture and dare Trump to make good on his threats.
  — Peter D. Feaver, Foreign Affairs, 19 Feb. 2024
• The Thin Blue Line wasn’t cracked by adversarial interviews.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 19 Oct. 2023
• In the jargon of the CIA, tradecraft is the set of skills spies use to evade adversarial operatives, find new sources and communicate with them securely.
  — Arkansas Online, 8 Oct. 2021
• In the jargon of the CIA, tradecraft is the set of skills spies use to evade adversarial operatives, find new sources, and communicate with them securely.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 8 Oct. 2021

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024