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inimical

[ih-nim-i-kuhl] / ɪˈnɪm ɪ kəl /


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Myanmar's state-run English-language newspaper, the Global New Light of Myanmar, has published a joint statement saying both countries underscored the need to prevent the misuse of Myanmar's territory for activities "inimical to their security interests".

From BBC Jun. 2, 2026

In a letter to the Supreme Court of Florida, the FTC Office of Policy Planning, Bureau of Competition wrote that “Such control by the ABA is inimical to the principles on which competition law rests.”

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 16, 2026

Paradoxically, this sort of love for an animal can be inimical to its welfare.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 18, 2024

More than 30 states prohibit title lending or have laws inimical to the industry.

From Salon Nov. 15, 2022

The desert is the environment of revelation, genetically and physiologically alien, sensorily austere, esthetically abstract, historically inimical....

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer




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