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adversaries

noun as in opponent

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It is, after all, supposed to be a secret business whose practices and methods are not known to adversaries or friends.

The North Koreans are usually willing to talk for various reasons: to get aid, to divide their adversaries, to create confusion.

They were not political allies, but they were not bitter adversaries, either, Barone recalls.

Develop better systems and techniques than your adversaries.

Soviet SAMs were to become one of the most formidable and feared adversaries in wars cold and hot.

Distances were to him as nothing; and difficulties only stimulated him to give his adversaries a more signal overthrow.

He made a violent assault against the nation of his enemies, and in the descent he destroyed the adversaries.

As unto revenge, as it were to repay wrath to his adversaries, and a reward to his enemies: he will repay the like to the islands.

The Girondists had recently been called in the journals and inflammatory speeches of their adversaries the Rolandists.

But the dominant party, elated by the victory which they had gained over their adversaries, were encouraged to fresh extortions.

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On this page you'll find 20 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to adversaries, such as: enemy, competitor, foe, rival, attacker, and antagonist.

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

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