common enemy

collocation in English

meaningsofcommonandenemy

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common
adjective
uk
/ˈkɒm.ən/
us
/ˈkɑː.mən/
the same in a lot of places or for a lot ...
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enemy
noun
uk
/ˈen.ə.mi/
us
/ˈen.ə.mi/
a person who hates or opposes another person and tries to harm them or stop them from ...
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(Definition ofcommonandenemyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Nevertheless, they frequently found themselves in support of complementary ideals and campaigning against acommonenemy.
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Substantial differences remained among them, but the threat of acommonenemycould not be discounted.
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Hatcher attempted to bridge class and racial schisms by building an environmental coalition that could stand united against acommonenemy, the steel company.
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Having acommonenemydeepened their loyalty to nationalliberalism but at the same time created problems.
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The violence of the armed forces has been unleashed against the internal enemy, instead of against acommonenemyacross the border.
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In the face of thecommonenemy, society closed ranks.
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Having acommonenemyfurther energizes and unites people.
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The first sessions were designed to create an alliance with both partners and to reframe their negative cycle of interaction as theircommonenemy.
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There was no longer acommonenemy.
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Oro activities remained confined to individual towns until 1965, when they united against acommonenemy.
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Several mutinies occurred, all of them engineered from a very obvious direction—whether by thecommonenemyor by those fighting with us is quite unimportant.
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We are met together to-day to do what we can to support the country against thecommonenemy.
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But does this circumstance exclude the possibility of coordinated action by this coalition against thecommonenemywho threatens them with enslavement?
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With such a prospect, a country rises to heights of self-preservation which it does not achieve without the stimulus of acommonenemy.
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They came forward voluntarily, and freely spent their money in helping us to defeat thecommonenemy.
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They are acommonenemywhom we must destroy or be destroyed by.
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It is difficult to get various public agencies to join together to defeat acommonenemy.
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Happily, it seems that they are now listening to their own troops anxious to win the battle against thecommonenemy—ill-health.
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It is high time that we recognised thecommonenemyand stopped scoring ponits off one another.
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