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- noun A person engaged in a struggle.
Etymologies
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Examples
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But wherever one may fall on the question of performance enhancers, there continues to be an unasked question: where do the owners fit into the anabolic agonistes?
Bad Sports Dave Zirin 2010
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But wherever one may fall on the question of performance enhancers, there continues to be an unasked question: where do the owners fit into the anabolic agonistes?
Bad Sports Dave Zirin 2010
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But wherever one may fall on the question of performance enhancers, there continues to be an unasked question: where do the owners fit into the anabolic agonistes?
Bad Sports Dave Zirin 2010
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But wherever one may fall on the question of performance enhancers, there continues to be an unasked question: where do the owners fit into the anabolic agonistes?
Bad Sports Dave Zirin 2010
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Sherman is a former reporter for the New York Observer who has shown he has sources inside the paper during two earlier episodes: the Judy Miller agonistes and James Risen's wiretapping story, where the "why now?" question was extremely important, since it involved the 2004 election.
Jay Rosen: For the New York Times, as Well, Self-Confidence on Ethics Poses Risks 2008
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Of course agonistes had to ask:...what are your thoughts on yaoi?
Mysterious new Injuries agonistes 2008
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Birkin was on the whole dim and indifferent, drifting along in a dim, easy flow, unnoticing and patient, since he came abroad, whilst Gerald on the other hand, was intense and gripped into white light, agonistes.
Women in Love 1907
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Seconds later, the first man is having a stroke and the hose is squirting around; he writhes on the ground spraying in all directions, like Jupiter Pluvius agonistes.
Slate Articles Bill Wyman 2011
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Perhaps it is time for CUFI and other Christian Zionist allies of Israel to create a firestorm of adverse criticism on Capitol Hill against the Obama 'Israel agonistes' strategy.
Israpundit 2009
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The Democrats, in their permanent role as agonistes in the long-running farce called "Democracy," just lie.
panselin commented on the word agonistes
From the greek word agon which means a struggle, a competition, a contest. Derivatives are the words agonia (agony), sinagonismos (competition).
December 25, 2006
whichbe commented on the word agonistes
Someone in the grip of inner conflict. (from Phrontistery)
May 22, 2008