adversaries
- plural of adversary.
Example Sentences
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Officials said the increase was being driven by a mix of online threats, lone actors, ideological extremism, foreign adversaries and individuals experiencing mental health crises.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
"The uncomfortable truth is that too many organisations are still defending at human speed while adversaries are escalating to machine speed," he said.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
“The collection will visit various countries of the world for two years and will come back, as it says in the law,” Sheinbaum told reporters in April, blaming political adversaries for the contretemps.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
Beijing is concerned that sharing some of this technology could help adversaries or other malicious actors and ultimately get weaponized against China, the people said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
Their authors often were adversaries of the Indians they wrote about, usually did not speak the necessary languages, and almost always had an agenda other than empathetic description of indigenous folkways.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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