Sample Sentences for
antagonism
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    Their long-standing antagonism kept university scientists free of contaminating industry ties, and whenever debate arose about technological matters, disinterested scientists were available to discuss the issues at the highest levels.  (source)
    antagonism = hostility or opposition
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    Ralph sighed, sensing the rising antagonism, understanding that this was how Jack felt as soon as he ceased to lead.  (source)
    antagonism = hostility
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    It made him the most visible and memorable person at every gathering, and cartoonists had fastened onto the theatricality of his white hair and big black mustache whenever they depicted local political antagonism.  (source)
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    Into Bastian's face flows an undercurrent of antagonism.†  (source)
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    They set aside one day at the very end of the year for all the companies to throw a beer party on the beach for a day of swimming and drinking, when the freshmen could challenge the upperclassmen to fights, thus allowing them to expend any unresolved frustrations and antagonisms of the year.†  (source)
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    Not many more, but enough to seed antagonism between the two groups.†  (source)
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    Though he had never talked business with her, she had known it to be a fraction of him that couldn't come out even, would carry forever beyond any decimal place she might name; her love, such as it had been, remaining incommensurate with his need to possess, to alter the land, to bring new skylines, personal antagonisms, growth rates into being.†  (source)
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    The antagonism between Lee Adler and Jim Williams had gained a new dimension because of Adler's close association with Spencer Lawton.†  (source)
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    By our last year the early antagonisms were forgotten.†  (source)
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    After you've confided long enough in someone, he or she assumes the antagonism you might have just been trying out.†  (source)
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    The beginning of Benton's end—so strongly suggested already by the antagonisms he had aroused over Texas and Oregon—came on February 19, 1847.†  (source)
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    He had expected to encounter antagonism, even confrontation, and instead was being offered sly, misguided collusion.†  (source)
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    And there are situations where—antagonisms that...in short, I am at the gentleman's disposal.†  (source)
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