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Noun
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The drills around Taiwan are only the latest example of Chinese aggression this month.—
Anders Hagstrom,
Fox News,
26 Feb. 2025 -
The paper said that the text did not contain clear security guarantees for Ukraine against Russian aggression, which have been priorities for Kyiv in a deal to end the war started by Putin.—
John Feng,
Newsweek,
26 Feb. 2025
Noun
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The national community could be knit together without indulging the chauvinism of belligerence.—
Gideon Lewis-Kraus,
The New Yorker,
19 Feb. 2025
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But the long-term consequences of his economic belligerence have been largely negative for all involved.—
Jonathan Berkshire Miller,
Foreign Affairs,
5 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Its approach to union organizing activity may not be entirely welcoming, but seems to lack the truculence and hostility shown by retailers such as Starbucks and Amazon.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Jan. 2025
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Other international powers are showing even less patience for Israeli truculence.—
Shalom Lipner,
Foreign Affairs,
25 Nov. 2024
Noun
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Congress has given away its power to declare war to the president, handing over the ability to take the nation from a state of peace to a state of belligerency or co-belligerency.—
Armstrong Williams,
Baltimore Sun,
7 July 2024
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Credibility requires consistency, not belligerency.—
Keren Yarhi-Milo,
Foreign Affairs,
12 Dec. 2017
Noun
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This scrappiness paid off when delivery became a table stakes channel in the past year.—
Alicia Kelso,
Forbes,
5 May 2021
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The unselfishness and scrappiness of the Golden Eagles is reminiscent of those teams coached by Al McGuire in halcyon days.—
Ben Steele,
Journal Sentinel,
11 Mar. 2023
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“Pugnaciousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pugnaciousness. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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