Sample Sentences for
adversary
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    Then, readying my weapons, I ran forward, leaping from platform to platform, to confront the first of my adversaries.  (source)
    adversaries = opponents
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    They told us that we had done battle with fiercer adversaries in the past, and we would again someday.  (source)
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    Finally, to those nations who would make themselves our adversary, we offer not a pledge but a request -- that both sides begin anew the quest for peace, before the dark powers of destruction unleashed by science engulf all humanity in planned or accidental self-destruction.  (source)
    adversary = opponent
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    They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary.  (source)
    adversary = opponent
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    Adversaries and allies alike tended to underestimate Carter, a blunder Gabriel had never made.†  (source)
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    And I'm being too adversarial, considering they spend all day working on how to save my life.†  (source)
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    But I could only think of one adversary who might be able to tell the future.†  (source)
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    You've always been a class enemy who views the people as your adversaries.†  (source)
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    Many of the professors used the Socratic method—direct, repetitive, and adversarial questioning—which had the incidental effect of humiliating unprepared students.†  (source)
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    But in reality, the bear was not his primary adversary.†  (source)
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    Comic-book adversaries in a still-to-come war.†  (source)
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    For someone who wants a favor—an incredibly, unspeakably huge and dangerous favor at that—you're unexpectedly adversarial.†  (source)
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    Clearly, the Count had underestimated his adversary.†  (source)
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