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- noun
archenemy
Etymologies
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A freewheeling critic of politics and culture, first in intellectual journals like Partisan Review, Politics and later at The New Yorker and Esquire, Macdonald (1906-1982) was the archfoe of middlebrow and lowbrow taste.
Ink-Stained Riches 2008
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In the pact, AOL partnered with Network Computer, a unit of Microsoft's archfoe Oracle, and Hughes Electronics, which was recently headed by AT&T's current chairman.
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Rock and roll celebrates itself as the archfoe of convention, yet remains as rigid in subject matter as ritual music from some tribal village.
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Ethiopia has firmly denied reports of atrocities and has placed the blame on the ONLF, which it considers a terrorist organization backed by archfoe Eritrea and Islamist militias in nearby Somalia.
Ethiopia’s Dirty War 2008
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In a regional final against the Fury's archfoe, a northern Virginia team called the Sparklers, one of the Fury's star strikers, Kerie Sample, missed a shoot-out penalty kick (it hit the goal post).
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Sadly, I can't remember if they had any archfoe - but hell, they're cool anyway. the super 6
bad boys III: assorted nastiness Dean Francis Alfar 2005
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What I do know is that Skeletor had it worse than his compatriot Hordak, the archfoe of She-ra.
bad boys Dean Francis Alfar 2005
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On a government website, Asmara also urged its archfoe Addis
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Sirius' archfoe, market dominator XM Satellite Radio, had its own woes with transmitter units that exceeded emission standards.
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Nigeria if African Union mediators allowed archfoe Eritrea to take part.
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