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While Platner's non-political background elevated him in a climate unfriendly to establishment candidates, several scandals emerged that rocked his campaign.
From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026
One thing I can’t play is family unfriendly tunes.
From Salon ● Jun. 6, 2026
Much of this stems from hubris about India’s prospects, which led to policies unfriendly to investors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026
The ruling also suspends a Pentagon designation of Anthropic, creator of the Claude AI model, as a national security supply chain risk -- a label typically reserved for organizations from unfriendly foreign countries.
From Barron's ● Mar. 26, 2026
Sam stirred in his chair, and looked at the farmer with an unfriendly eye.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
The money piece never quite shook out on the avant-garde, and by the 1980s the lofts had mostly closed amid rising rents and unfriendlier civic attitudes toward semi-legal assembly.
From New York Times ● Mar. 17, 2022
Some of the less grateful passages had been censored by Medora's own hand and the unfriendlier of the critics thus partially disarmed in advance.
From Under the Skylights by Fuller, Henry Blake
And the gallant Red Admiral, the brave beautiful Red Admiral that had dared unfriendlier gales, trimmed his painted sails to a wind that was the breath of spring.
From Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man by Oemler, Marie Conway
The tale results in a flashback to a Dickensian-looking period when Sesame Street was known as “the unfriendliest street in town” and ancestors of all the current gang spent their days crabbing at one another.
From New York Times ● Nov. 23, 2016
The expression of the miner's eyes promised the unfriendliest kind of "capers" if he should ever get an opportunity to cut them.
From The Talking Leaves An Indian Story by Stoddard, William Osborn
He feels that he is engaged in single combat with Nature at her unfriendliest.
From And Even Now by Beerbohm, Max, Sir
I am in Italy—in Genoa, to be sure, which of all Italian cities passes for the unfriendliest to the Muse: but that is my probation.
From Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
She clasped a chain about the hound's neck, and they set off westward towards the house of Fergus Fionnliath, who was reputed to be the unfriendliest man in the world to a dog.
From Irish Fairy Tales by Stephens, James
