enmity
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Their earlier efforts to insulate themselves from such strikes failed, stoking Arab enmity toward Tehran.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026
Lee, a veteran labour activist and a witness to the 1989 crackdown, told the court in March he felt no enmity towards the Communist Party and hoped it would reform.
From Barron's ● May 18, 2026
Meeting face-to-face, the enmity continued as the two donned hard hats and traded blows over the true cost of renovating Federal Reserve buildings.
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 2026
Despite a shared enmity for the United States and Israel, the Shiite and Sunni militias are bitter sectarian foes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2026
But it was an enmity controlled from above—by nobles who were not sincerely anxious for each other’s blood.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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As music “that transcended enmities to forge a connection between all the people born of this land,” Vargas Llosa writes, channeling Toño’s enthusiasm, the vals is the exemplary art form of a “mongrel nation.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026
But its removal lit up social media, rekindling historic enmities.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2025
Libyans from across the fragmented country have driven through old front lines regardless of bitter enmities to deliver aid to flood-stricken Derna this week, putting aside years of conflict between their divided leaders.
From Reuters ● Sep. 14, 2023
But some supporters of the current leadership fear a court case may simply bring some of the old enmities and issues back to the fore.
From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2023
It was a “world criss-crossed by numerous patron-client relationships and family ties, in which major centers vied with one another in enmities that could endure for centuries.”
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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