as in hostile
marked by opposition or ill will
the relationship between the president and the congress should not be adversarial if anything is to get done
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And China has shifted its focus in recent weeks, researchers say, to target down-ballot Republican candidates as well as sitting members of Congress who promote policies adversarial to China or in conflict with its interests.
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Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 23 Oct. 2024
However, this climate agenda risks accelerating domestic production declines, ceding ground to adversarial energy producers abroad.
—Dan Eberhart, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
There’s another daughter who’s left running the hotel who has a fun, adversarial relationship with Daniel.
—Leo Barraclough, Variety, 21 Oct. 2024
The result is that the LLM follows the adversarial prompt, gathers all the personal information, and formats it into a Markdown image command—attaching the personal information to a URL owned by the attackers.
—Matt Burgess, WIRED, 17 Oct. 2024
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Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 23 Oct. 2024
However, this climate agenda risks accelerating domestic production declines, ceding ground to adversarial energy producers abroad.
—Dan Eberhart, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
There’s another daughter who’s left running the hotel who has a fun, adversarial relationship with Daniel.
—Leo Barraclough, Variety, 21 Oct. 2024
The result is that the LLM follows the adversarial prompt, gathers all the personal information, and formats it into a Markdown image command—attaching the personal information to a URL owned by the attackers.
—Matt Burgess, WIRED, 17 Oct. 2024
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“Adversarial.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/adversarial. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.
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