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Animosities on the Korean Peninsula remain high in the wake of North Korea’s barrage of missile tests since 2022.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 6, 2024

"Animosities have come to an end, and we would like to live peacefully. We don't want any internal enemies and any external enemies."

From Reuters • Aug. 17, 2021

Have not many of us been Devils one unto another for Slanderings, for Backbitings, for Animosities?

From The Wonders of the Invisible World Being an Account of the Tryals of Several Witches Lately Executed in New-England, to which is added A Farther Account of the Tryals of the New-England Witches by Mather, Cotton

Animosities spring up between floor and floor; the very cellar asserts his equality. 

From Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people by Dickens, Charles

It was this which prompted that rather grandiose but still admirable palinode of Christopher North, in August 1834,—"the Animosities are mortal: but the Humanities live for ever,"—an apology which naturally enough pleased Hunt very much.

From Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by Saintsbury, George