enmity
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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
The two have an enmity that goes back more than four decades, with outbursts of fighting or outright war punctuated by periods of tense calm.
From Los Angeles Times • May 4, 2026
Every character seems to be poised between undying affection and eternal enmity.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 5, 2026
But on Wednesday, the Russian and Syrian leaders sat down together for the first time, putting pragmatism ahead of past enmity.
From BBC • Oct. 15, 2025
However, something then went wrong between them–nobody is quite sure what–and by the following year they had developed an enmity that would grow into consuming hatred over the next thirty years.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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Lord of the Flies
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