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Recent Examples of enemy Like its predecessor, Age of Imprisonment isn’t exactly a typical Zelda game, instead borrowing the design of musou series like Dynasty Warriors for hard-hitting combat against hordes of enemies. Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 12 Sep. 2025 The future came to be seen as the enemy of both past and present. Tim Brinkhof, Big Think, 12 Sep. 2025 Wala said that framing enables the government to treat migrants and asylum seekers as enemy combatants. Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 12 Sep. 2025 But those attacks and operations were only carried out in enemy states, such as the killing of Ismail Haniyeh in Iran and of Saleh al-Arouri in Lebanon. Oren Liebermann, CNN Money, 11 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for enemy
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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
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
  • And, unfortunately, the monitoring idea was born into a world hostile to its very premise.
    Robert S. Gable, IEEE Spectrum, 20 July 2017

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“Enemy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enemy. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.

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