hyperaggressiveness

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Noun
  • There’s still no ceasefire over the physical remains of the Houston Oilers, now the Titans, and the ongoing feud is defined by petty antagonism and proxy wars.
    Brooks Kubena, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
  • But to get up and running, Valley Link needs more state and regional funding, especially considering the Trump administration’s antagonism toward environmentally friendly projects.
    Jerry McNerney, The Mercury News, 12 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Images accompanied by verbal descriptions of their generosity and kindness resulted in higher scores of facial attractiveness than when the same images were accompanied by negative traits like selfishness and unfriendliness.
    Sable Yong, TIME, 28 June 2024
  • Each of the 1,200 mainstream vehicles the ACEEE evaluates is given an overall Green Score that can be used to compare the relative environmental friendliness – or unfriendliness as the case may be – from one model to another.
    Jim Gorzelany, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
Noun
  • Stolarz’s inclination to shout instructions at teammates on the ice, often with serious levels of hostility in the name of competition, comes to him naturally.
    Joshua Kloke, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025
  • Datta writes that Indians had faced violent treatment at the hands of Japanese forces, even if the Chinese community bore the brunt of the Japanese hostility.
    H.M.A. Leow, JSTOR Daily, 7 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • By the time Moynihan’s second paper came out, many white liberals, distracted by the war in Vietnam and disenchanted by Black militancy, had given up on the crusade for civil rights.
    Louis Menand, New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2025
  • The indirect impact on elections is a common side effect of labor militancy and mass protest.
    Kevin A. Young, The Conversation, 18 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Americans lacked a sense of urgency about Nazi aggression.
    Tamar Jacoby, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Related article Ukraine’s European allies say Russian aggression is pushing peace out of reach, as US envoy meets Putin The new administration has opened multiple channels to Moscow, following three years of diplomatic isolation.
    Andrew Carey and Victoria Butenko, CNN Money, 12 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • This is compounded by the economic impacts of the Trump trade pressures, the global backlash of the Hong Kong National Security Law, the declining fortunes of national technology champion Huawei, and other reactions to growing China militance and chauvinism.
    Therese Shaheen, National Review, 1 Sep. 2020
  • The flamboyance, militance, and violence of the 1960s left might not have worked right away, after all.
    Samuel Goldman, The Week, 6 Jan. 2022
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“Hyperaggressiveness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hyperaggressiveness. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.

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