opponent

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adversary | American Dictionary

adversary
noun[ C ]
us/ˈæd·vərˌser·i/
an enemy:
He saw her as his main adversary within the company.

Examples of adversary

adversary
Consensual issues do not allow the parties to distinguish themselves from their adversaries during an electoral campaign.
Theologians and philosophers asserted the possessive nature of selfhood in reaction to their doctrinal adversaries, and vice versa.
However, this political divide did not coincide exactly with the line between supporters and adversaries of relativity theory.
How did these seemingly implacable adversaries get to be tactical allies in 1947?
Another, related, reason is that they were generally much better armed than their adversaries.
The expansion of the problematic includes the questioning by the contenders of their adversaries' factual, methodological, and conceptual presuppositions.
The acute sensitivity to outside noise was exploited by those using public insult to shame an adversary.
But this interpretation of his adversary's claim is quite minimalist.
He dealt with others, whether friends, adversaries, or subordinates, openly and without guile.
The gold diggers usually arrived alone at the gold fields, and avoided company : they were taken as adversaries.
This last proposition is not clearly attributable to any camp, but finds supporters and adversaries both on the left and the right.
Meanwhile, those with a broader view recognized a different adversary.
The corresponding edge sequence is determined by some adversary.
Consider the following online version of the minimum spanning tree problem, described as a game between an algorithm and an adversary.
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