archenemy

Example Sentences

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Inflation, for central bankers, is the archenemy and the root of all evil.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 7, 2026

But when he did play it, it was less about his archenemy than about L.A., a city with a new song in the canon, a definitive “Us” who were all alike in screaming it.

From Los Angeles Times • May 22, 2025

“My dear brother, my archenemy, how did we come to this?”

From New York Times • Dec. 19, 2023

The specificity of his doomsday prophecy should have been a hint that he was fundraising rather than girding for a confrontation with a new archenemy.

From Washington Post • Mar. 24, 2023

Request Denied Mark Antony had his sights set on Parthia—long an archenemy of Rome.

From "Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen" by Susan Blackaby