as in foes
one that is hostile toward another
a beloved minister with no known enemies
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While many were quick to gloat that Grewal was defeated by enemies lobbying against him, turnover is common in the high-pressure role.
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Byandrew Nusca, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2024
Defeating enemies does make backtracking much more manageable, however, as most monsters stay dead, very rarely respawning over time.
—George Yang, Rolling Stone, 4 Oct. 2024
Unsurprisingly, Iran is glad to enable Palestinians to fight Tehran’s enemies and absorb the human costs of war, because this arrangement primarily benefits the Islamic Republic.
—Aaron Pilkington, The Conversation, 4 Oct. 2024
Running into undiscovered rooms sometimes provided a sense of reprieve and escape from enemies, but there’s always a chance that it could be locked, or there’s another monster right inside.
—George Yang, Rolling Stone, 4 Oct. 2024
But in a blog post describing the takedown, Steven Masada, assistant general counsel for Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit, noted that the hackers had a history of targeting political enemies and that Microsoft wanted to make Russian cyberspies’ jobs harder.
—Kevin Collier, NBC News, 3 Oct. 2024
The question for a nervously watching world, above all for the Biden administration, is whether these lessons will give Israel and its enemies sufficient pause to slow the rapid Mideast escalation of recent days.
—Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Oct. 2024
While such generalizations have historically been used to demonize enemies, there is still a contrived tendency to divide the world into land and sea powers.
—Colin Flint, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2024
Byandrew Nusca, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2024
Defeating enemies does make backtracking much more manageable, however, as most monsters stay dead, very rarely respawning over time.
—George Yang, Rolling Stone, 4 Oct. 2024
Unsurprisingly, Iran is glad to enable Palestinians to fight Tehran’s enemies and absorb the human costs of war, because this arrangement primarily benefits the Islamic Republic.
—Aaron Pilkington, The Conversation, 4 Oct. 2024
Running into undiscovered rooms sometimes provided a sense of reprieve and escape from enemies, but there’s always a chance that it could be locked, or there’s another monster right inside.
—George Yang, Rolling Stone, 4 Oct. 2024
But in a blog post describing the takedown, Steven Masada, assistant general counsel for Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit, noted that the hackers had a history of targeting political enemies and that Microsoft wanted to make Russian cyberspies’ jobs harder.
—Kevin Collier, NBC News, 3 Oct. 2024
The question for a nervously watching world, above all for the Biden administration, is whether these lessons will give Israel and its enemies sufficient pause to slow the rapid Mideast escalation of recent days.
—Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Oct. 2024
While such generalizations have historically been used to demonize enemies, there is still a contrived tendency to divide the world into land and sea powers.
—Colin Flint, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2024
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“Enemies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enemies. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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