How to Use animus in a Sentence
animus
noun- She felt an animus against them.
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And there is no allegation that this judge was moved by animus.
— Aziz Huq, Fortune, 5 June 2018 -
But the animus inspires an American militia to nearly touch off a border war.
— Nestor Ramos, BostonGlobe.com, 12 June 2018 -
No, this is nearly 600 pages and hours of testimony where you just from top to bottom, there is nothing but animus and bias that was laid out there.
— Fox News, 19 June 2018 -
Regardless of turnout, or even who wins, academics predict a growing animus between young and old to match the polarized party politics currently roiling the nation.
— Ben Steverman, latimes.com, 22 June 2018 -
The depth of Wall Street’s animus for Warren isn’t clear.
— Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2019 -
As in the best (and worst) of feuds, the origins are forgotten but the animus endures.
— Steve Rushin, SI.com, 20 Sep. 2019 -
There’s no animus or moral insult in his tone — just a feel for the context of such acts.
— Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 8 Jan. 2023 -
The attempt on his life became another bargaining chip in another deal, one weakened by the lack of evidence that the shooter was motivated by partisan animus.
— Philip Bump, Washington Post, 19 July 2024 -
How does Hae Sung not harbour any animus over the way things ended the last time around?
— Hazlitt, 15 May 2024 -
That relationship lacked the trash talk, though, along with the clear animus and edge.
— San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 June 2021 -
This is 2020 America, so the clip spurred some racial animus as well.
— Melissa Fletcher Stoeltje, ExpressNews.com, 4 June 2020 -
Paul and his comrades hold no animus towards the French.
— Time, 2 Nov. 2022 -
There was no animus in his voice, and indeed the team seemed to be going out of its way to reassure Tai.
— Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2022 -
In 1919, when racial animus in D.C. erupted in race riots, some of the Wormleys moved to Cleveland.
— Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2021 -
The show’s catalogue calls out the racial and religious animus in this and other images in the show.
— Steven Litt, cleveland.com, 1 Sep. 2019 -
Come to think of it, personal animus among the principals is the stuff of the best rivalries.
— Dallas News, 3 June 2022 -
No, the report assured Asian Americans, the racial animus was not all in your head.
— New York Times, 3 June 2021 -
Despite the animus at the start of the meeting, some stakeholders remain hopeful that the group could make some progress.
— Katrina Manson, Bloomberg.com, 30 Mar. 2022 -
Along with the animus between the Rams and 49ers, there were equal amounts of admiration and respect.
— Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2019 -
But when the Fed slips up, or when times get rough, America’s old animus for central banks isn’t far away.
— Justin Lahart, WSJ, 21 June 2019 -
This animus has been persistent in his career and has not changed in any way, and the hearing confirms that.
— Gwen Aviles, NBC News, 31 Oct. 2019 -
And besides, the 76ers and their fans seem to be reserving most of their animus this season for Ben Simmons.
— Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 15 Dec. 2021 -
The animus was very real between the two women, and (spoiler alert!) the beef was not squashed and remains intact.
— Tracie Egan Morrissey, EW.com, 17 Nov. 2019 -
Barack Obama’s election in 2008 made plain that the voting-rights wars were fuelled, in no small part, by racial animus.
— Jane Mayer, The New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2021 -
Clark has gotten that in the WNBA, but also elbows and animus, and stares on the court that must feel a little like hatred.
— Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 12 June 2024 -
Officials claimed that the city needed the land for a park, but the Black landowners said the seizure was motivated by racial animus.
— Clyde McGrady, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2023 -
White troops who fought alongside Black soldiers held less racial animus post-war.
— CNN, 14 Oct. 2022 -
Still, most contemporary peers and fans agree that the animus mostly had to do with clashing egos.
— Juan J. Arroyo, Rolling Stone, 29 Dec. 2022 -
So, the combination of general tax animus and anti-government sentiment — along with all the other weird stuff currently infecting the body politic — explain why polls continue to reveal this grim public view.
— Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 16 Feb. 2024
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