hostility
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Hostility between America’s dedicated league bowlers and Lucky Strike has been building for years.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 2, 2026
Hostility toward its volunteers has seeped into mainstream politics.
From Slate • Oct. 22, 2025
"Hostility to human rights is at its heart and no amendments can salvage it," she said.
From BBC • Feb. 11, 2024
Hostility to the U.S. has always been a rallying point for Iran's clerical establishment, despite political isolation and sanctions-related economic hardship since Washington severed ties with Tehran shortly after the 1979 Islamic revolution.
From Reuters • Sep. 18, 2023
Hostility followed in 1807, during Jefferson's second term, when Napoleon's Berlin Decree and the British.
From The War With the United States : A Chronicle of 1812 by Langton, H. H. (Hugh Hornby)
Vocabulary lists containing hostility
"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 16–19
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Franklin D. Roosevelt, "A Date That Will Live In Infamy" (1941)
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Maus I: My Father Bleeds History
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