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nemesis

noun as in bane

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Or so we’re reminded when Buddy’s nemesis shows up for the big day.

Usually it plays out as a cute moment, the assembled gaggle cooing awwww at the exchange as the queried party answers far more effusively than they do for their daily adult nemeses.

They have been chasing an elusive European title for several years and it is Barcelona who have proved to be their nemesis, knocking them out in four of the past five Champions League campaigns.

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Even as their nemesis prowled the nursery, the Horrible Incorrigibles whined, punched, dueled, and pirouetted all the way to the bakehouse.

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The official trailer for the sequel shows the chirpy red-capped Italian plumber cavorting with his friends and nemeses in a colourful intergalactic universe.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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