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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mean-spiritedness
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The Democratic contest for an Illinois Senate seat is shaping up as a test of the political power of Gov. JB Pritzker over a primary field of candidates who enter the race with deep animosity for one another and skepticism about the governor’s influence.—
Reid J. Epstein,
New York Times,
12 May 2025 -
But as the conflict spirals, with decades of animosity between the countries and powerful nuclear arsenals pointed at one another, the administration has now signaled it would get involved.—
Christopher Shays,
New York Daily News,
10 May 2025
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The Trump administration’s antagonism toward the traditional transatlantic alliance could be the most consequential trigger of further European integration since the groundwork for the EU was laid in 1948.—
Arancha González Laya,
Foreign Affairs,
12 May 2025
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Interestingly, when the researchers attempted to block the receptor (receptor antagonism is a common pharmacological effect of many commercial drugs), anxiety actually increased.—
Jenny Lehmann,
Discover Magazine,
9 Apr. 2025
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Ultimately, restrictions on vacant CPS property sales are part of a broader problem, and that’s education officials’ open hostility toward alternative education models.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
14 May 2025
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Then a decade of talks crashed into President Trump’s hostility toward Canada.—
Karen Weise,
New York Times,
13 May 2025
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Colt has been indicted on 55 felony counts, including four counts of malice murder, according to court documents, and has pleaded not guilty.—
Devon M. Sayers,
CNN Money,
6 May 2025
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Without it, little remained but his malice, his pettiness, and his insatiable appetite for revenge.—
Jill Lepore,
New Yorker,
28 Apr. 2025
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China’s rapidly increasing demand for emissions-free nuclear power and Russia’s historical relationship with Astana in the nuclear sector put them both in an advantageous position to pursue further involvement in spite of Kazakhstan’s purposeful pivot to the West.—
Ariel Cohen,
Forbes.com,
12 May 2025
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In spite of decades of funding increases and words of support from the Oval Office, Head Start has rarely—if ever—been sufficiently funded.—
Jessica Winter,
New Yorker,
10 May 2025
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The rancor of the campaign season was put to bed last week as the Oak Park and River Forest High School District 200 board installed its new board president and seated its new and returning members.—
Bob Skolnik,
Chicago Tribune,
6 May 2025
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Bloodlines had granted British monarchs the right to territory in Aquitaine, the southwestern nook of France, much to the rancor of their French rivals.—
Chrissie McClatchie,
Travel + Leisure,
1 May 2025
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The top echelon of Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon has dissolved into a circle of mutual recrimination and enmity worthy of a Mexican standoff from a Quentin Tarantino film.—
The Editors,
National Review,
28 Apr. 2025
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The talks seek to limit Iran's nuclear program in exchange for the lifting of some of the crushing economic sanctions the U.S. has imposed on the Islamic Republic closing in on a half-century of enmity.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
27 Apr. 2025
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Ocean's big bad is casino owner Terry Benedict, played with the perfect amount of oily malevolence by Oscar nominee Andy García.—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
3 May 2025
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At others, there are undertones of malevolence, potential violence.—
Deborah Treisman,
The New Yorker,
16 Mar. 2025
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