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This widespread animosity presents ongoing challenges for prison management and raises serious concerns about the safety and well-being of those in BOP’s custody.—
Walter Pavlo,
Forbes.com,
31 July 2025 -
By taking away gaming as a form of punishment, parents take away their kid’s social lifeline, and in turn create animosity in the parent-child relationship.—
Cyndy Etler,
Hartford Courant,
28 July 2025
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The suit is part of a history of antagonism between Gillett and the industry over adverse decisions that the utilities argue are based on misapplication of regulatory law.—
Edmund H. Mahony,
Hartford Courant,
16 Aug. 2025
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More recently, unfounded antagonism against immigrants is being used to sow fear across many Orlando-area communities.—
Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board,
The Orlando Sentinel,
12 June 2025
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There is a clear correlation between being the victim of hostility and suffering from negative mental health or even physical health.—
Jo Causon,
Forbes.com,
6 Aug. 2025
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Time and again the president has expressed optimism after speaking with Putin about winding down the hostilities.—
Editorial,
Boston Herald,
3 Aug. 2025
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Actual malice means a reporter or press outlet knew their story was false or else acted with reckless disregard for the truth.—
Stephanie A,
The Conversation,
4 Aug. 2025
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Betrayal beyond one’s control may involve situations like forgetting an important date due to stress or feeling overwhelmed, hurting others’ feelings unintentionally by making careless comments or blunders made out of misunderstanding rather than malice.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
31 July 2025
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In spite of that, there was time to savor Friday’s win over the mighty West champs.—
Lori Riley,
Hartford Courant,
16 Aug. 2025
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The Denver Broncos were one of the NFL's most pleasant surprises last season, going 10-7 and making the playoffs in spite of starting a rookie quarterback in Bo Nix.—
Matthew Schmidt,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 Aug. 2025
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His screed resonates as a credo today: Mayor Koch has stated that hate and rancor should be removed from our hearts.—
David Remnick,
New Yorker,
3 Aug. 2025
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Instead, with international travel to the United States already plunging — especially absent are the angry Canadians — amid rancor over President Donald Trump’s trade wars, L.A. hotels can’t catch a break.—
The Editorial Board,
Oc Register,
27 June 2025
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Paul Monreal is a fourth-great-grandchild of Catherine and Patrick O’Leary, who endured the enmity of Chicagoans after they were wrongfully accused of starting the Great Chicago Fire, which legend said was started by a jittery dairy cow named Daisy.—
William Lee,
Chicago Tribune,
5 July 2025
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Trump has never wavered in his enmity for California.—
Thomas Elias,
Mercury News,
23 June 2025
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However, for anyone who has observed Trump’s public life, his malignancy and malevolence have always been obvious.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
17 July 2025
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The filmmakers know exactly how to leverage Hawkins’s warm, naturalistic screen presence, using her offbeat sweetness to keep the audience guessing as to her character’s exact level of malevolence.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
30 May 2025
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