adversaries

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Officials have warned that existing systems have not kept pace with increasingly sophisticated weapons possessed by potential adversaries.

From BBC • May 12, 2026

Interest in UFOs has been renewed in recent years as the US government probed numerous reports of seemingly supernatural aircraft, amid worries that adversaries could be testing highly advanced technologies.

From Barron's • May 8, 2026

Even a popular New York City venue allegedly uses it to blackball people its millionaire owner considers adversaries.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2026

“Negotiations can only lead to a proper outcome when our adversaries recognize our nation’s right to the peaceful use of nuclear energy,” Iran’s ambassador to India, Mohammad Fathali, said on social media Saturday.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 25, 2026

But while the adversaries forgot the war to remember things of the past, Úrsula had the gloomy feeling that her son was an intruder.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez