archfoe

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Iran replaces powerful chief of Guard intelligence unit: Iran has dismissed the powerful chief of the Revolutionary Guard Corps' intelligence unit, Hossein Taeb, state TV said, after high-profile incidents blamed on archfoe Israel.

From Washington Post • Jun. 23, 2022

We know Richelieu as the archfoe of “The Three Musketeers,” but Alexandre Dumas based the character on a very real prelate whose Machiavellian talents helped hatch the concept of the nation-state.

From New York Times • Apr. 28, 2020

The man responsible for this attempt to reform New Jersey is Boss Hague's fellow Democrat and archfoe, former Governor Charles Edison, 54, son of Inventor Thomas A. Edison and onetime Assistant Secretary of the Navy.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sergeant Preston of the Yukon hustles his huskies, Our Gal Sunday strives to find happiness with a wealthy, titled Englishman, and 15-year-old Speed Gibson of the International Police doggedly pursues his archfoe, The Octopus.

From Time Magazine Archive

So pleased were they to have the archfoe of clerical secularism in this trap, that they called it a triumph indeed, to see the day when he sat on the Treasury bench.

From Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England by Marson, Charles L. (Charles Latimer)