aggressor

Example Sentences

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Prosecuting barrister Nicholas Lobbenberg KC said Digwa had a "weapons obsession", adding that his depiction to police of Nowak as a "racist, drunk, violent aggressor compounds the natural grief and loss of the deceased's family".

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026

"No pressure can justify collaborating with an aggressor," Silva wrote in an open letter addressed to Diosdado Cabello, Venezuela's powerful interior minister and a close ally of Maduro.

From Barron's • May 16, 2026

But attorneys for the county argued in court filings that it was Seitz who was actually the aggressor.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2026

Will then lurches into a tut-tutting recapitulation of the French army chief of staff’s public statement that his nation’s people must accept the risk of losing their children to protect France from an unnamed aggressor.

From Salon • Dec. 20, 2025

Once again, the players seemed to switch personalities as they played, with Petrosian as the aggressor.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady