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Recent Examples of agonistic The kitchen remains bloody and agonistic, demanding the preparation of yet another family meal. E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 14 July 2023 The agonistic, Faulknerian circumstances fill the house with awful silences. Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Dec. 2022 The Red Queen is about eternal recurrence of the agonistic dance between organisms. Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 21 Apr. 2011 Finally, serial attacks may signal the agonistic potential of a family to other flock members. Ncbi Rofl, Discover Magazine, 11 July 2012 Serial agonistic attacks by greylag goose families, Anser anser, against the same opponent. Ncbi Rofl, Discover Magazine, 11 July 2012 But the drive, the bile, the essential, agonistic spirit that powers the greatest rock music and serves as the source of its creativity will almost certainly be lacking. Damon Linker, The Week, 4 Sep. 2021 This agonistic version of the fact-value distinction leaves us with an impoverished ideal of social interaction. Peter E. Gordon, The New York Review of Books, 19 Nov. 2020
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Adjective
  • More likely than an all-out boycott, say attorneys, is a new era in which taxpayers and their accountants push the envelope with aggressive tax-planning techniques that may escape the review of an understaffed agency.
    Robert Frank, CNBC, 17 Apr. 2025
  • The prison has become a symbol of Bukele's aggressive policies that have targeted gang violence.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The group wrote to Bondi to argue that the influencer should be investigated over whether she has been paid to spread propaganda for Hamas, the Palestinian militant group in Gaza, it was first reported by the New York Post.
    Lauren Irwin, The Hill, 8 Apr. 2025
  • And in Lebanon, a series of Israeli attacks on the country have decapitated the militant group Hezbollah.
    Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN Money, 8 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Home to one of the world’s largest refugee populations – most of them from Afghanistan – Pakistan has not always welcomed the foreigners, subjecting them to hostile living conditions and threatening deportation over the years.
    Sophia Saifi, CNN Money, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Andreas typically waits until there have been three instances of potential hostile communication before asking her friend or colleague if everything is OK.
    Angela Haupt, Time, 28 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Policies around taxes, the federal budget and migration were widely seen as contentious points among the parties.
    Sophie Kiderlin, CNBC, 9 Apr. 2025
  • However, all three of these studies come from a closely affiliated group of researchers, are based on the same dataset tracking maternal health, and use contentious measures of both IQ and fluoride exposure.
    Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 9 Apr. 2025

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“Agonistic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/agonistic. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.

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