hostility
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Laraba Adamu, who was newly married at the time, remembers hostility at the river where she fetched water.
From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026
Then she treated Congress with snide hostility when it asked her to answer basic questions about it.
From Slate • Apr. 3, 2026
In denying Acuña’s request for a tenured position, the judge argued that the hostility between Acuña and his potential co-workers would make his appointment “both impractical and inappropriate.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026
The agency’s mindset remains: evidentiary maximalism detached from clinical reality, indifference to patient urgency, and hostility to the flexibility Congress intended.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026
The Master’s manservant, Cousins, was still in place, however, and Lyra had been ready to meet his hostility with defiance, for they had been enemies as long as she could remember.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
Vocabulary lists containing hostility
"To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, Chapters 16–19
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Franklin D. Roosevelt, "A Date That Will Live In Infamy" (1941)
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Maus I: My Father Bleeds History
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