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noun

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Adjective
Such sensitive information, along with financial information and private messages, is helpful for adversary intelligence agencies to use as leverage for blackmail or coercion. Dan Morse, Alex Horton, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Sep. 2022 At the same time, Trump's tirades against trade deals with nations like China played into a belief among many people that such pacts had hollowed out the American dream, while building middle classes lives for citizens of adversary nations. Stephen Collinson, CNN, 28 Sep. 2017
Noun
In the loosely based on Vineland film, DiCaprio plays an ex-activist who teams up with his former revolutionary pals when a militarized adversary (Penn) makes trouble for his family. Tolly Wright, Vulture, 8 Sep. 2025 But a United States threatening to upend 80 years of largely successful nonproliferation policy practice and experience is creating incentives for allies and adversaries alike to look for their own nuclear insurance policies. Vipin Narang, Foreign Affairs, 5 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for adversary
Recent Examples of Synonyms for adversary
Adjective
  • Thanks to climate change, Cosmism’s ambivalent and generally hostile attitude towards the natural world should also sound familiar.
    Tim Brinkhof, Big Think, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Another camera designed to withstand the hostile environment of space was used outside.
    Catherine Muccigrosso, Charlotte Observer, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Under orders from General Erinmore (Colin Firth), the pair must traverse enemy lines to deliver a life-or-death message to Colonel Mackenzie (Benedict Cumberbatch), halting an attack that would endanger more than 1,000 men.
    Emy LaCroix, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The enemy terrorizes and kills our people across the country every day.
    David Brennan, ABC News, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Through two games, the Ragin’ Cajuns have held opponents to an average of 12 points per game — a mark that’s tied for the best in the Sun Belt.
    Maddie Hartley, Kansas City Star, 10 Sep. 2025
  • And if history continues to repeat itself, the Panthers will continue to look like first-half fodder to their opponents over the next several weeks.
    DIAMOND VENCES, Charlotte Observer, 10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • There is also, generally speaking, universal admission that boy, this game sure runs terribly on PC, leading to a huge number of negative Steam reviews, causing the game to be Mixed there.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
  • Then, there’s the power to see through all of that, through what could be perceived as pain or a negative situation, and see the colorfulness of my culture, the warmth of my culture, and the community, as well.
    Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Green Bay went 1-5 against divisional foes in 2005, though, and Sherman was fired one day after the season ended.
    Rob Reischel, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • All four of its losses came to Detroit and the Rams, a pair of excellent foes.
    Jace Frederick, Twin Cities, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • But the Packers dominated a team that’s become one of their biggest rivals in recent years.
    Rob Reischel, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Sinner and Alcaraz’s nominally closest rival is Djokovic, who reached the semifinals of all four majors this year, and did at least post that one victory against Alcaraz.
    Charlie Eccleshare, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025

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“Adversary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/adversary. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.

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