hostility
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"We eagerly hope the South African government will rethink this hostility."
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
Many scenes in Blue Lights highlight the distrust of, and hostility towards, the police in some communities.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
Our school shut down amid protests and hostility.
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026
The test is the quality of the work, the hostility of the reception, and the verdict of the evidence over time.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 7, 2026
He insisted that blindness and indifference to racial groups is actually more important than racial hostility to the creation and maintenance of racialized systems of control.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
On the downside, spending also got a boost from an increase in gas prices after the U.S. and Iran resumed hostilities.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026
More than 1 million land mines are estimated to be in the DMZ, the no-man’s-land created as part of the armistice halting active hostilities in the 1950-53 Korean War.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
Earlier media reports suggested the new plan calls for a cessation of all hostilities in the Middle East for seven days, including in Lebanon.
From Barron's ● Sep. 26, 2026
Worsening hostilities in the Middle East will also concern the RBA, which is wary of faster price growth expectations while inflation remains well above its 2.5% target.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Mrs. Williams replied that she did not wish to at present, given the hostilities; but that Pro Bono desired to as soon as they might.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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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