aggress

Example Sentences

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For reasons beyond my understanding, Cross, an aspiring doctor, looks up to Rutkovsky, a flinty old timer with a propensity to aggress when he feels sad or mad or basically anything.

From New York Times • Mar. 28, 2024

“We have superior legal title to all the land west of the Missouri River that you and/or big oil seek to trespass and aggress on,” Bear Runner wrote in the letter.

From Slate • May 3, 2019

“If he didn’t have a gun, why did he aggress toward us in that manner?”

From New York Times • Jan. 20, 2017

And the actual aggress element of regular aggression doesn't have to be that aggressive.

From The Guardian • Jan. 19, 2011

If the body do not aggress, the spirit will not seek revenge.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 by Various