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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a joint enemy" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a common adversary that two or more parties face together.
Example: "In the face of climate change, we must recognize that pollution is a joint enemy that affects us all."
Alternatives: "common foe" or "shared adversary".
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"You don't play Gandhi with a jihadi .In a world of less tangled relationships, the targeting of Lebanon and Syria by jihadists might prompt both governments to co-operate against a joint enemy.
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"Terrorism is our joint enemy," Mr Hollande said.
The Chancellor, however, has signalled that the Tory-Murdoch marital bad patch is now over, and the BBC, their joint enemy, is back in the firing line.
August 30, 2013 Jeremy Bowen (@BowenBBC) They recall letter sent before commons debate to all MPs, saying UK/Syria had joint enemy AQ.
Heat and power consumption, while more easily managed in a desktop PC, are the joint enemies of notebook PC chips.
The militants "are our joint enemies," he said.
Movie executives collaboratively deal with joint enemies at the gate".
A joint show by the two enemies, it provided a chance to gawk at the Pakistanis on the other side and see that they looked just like us.
At some point, our bodies' own immune systems went nuts, mistaking healthy pieces of our anatomies — a pancreas, a thyroid, a joint — for foreign tissue, dangerous enemies within, and proceeded to attack and try to destroy them.
At a meeting with the diplomatic corps, he called for a "joint fight against international terrorism, the main enemy of civilization".
We are trying to bring everyone back together and make a joint statement that our main and only enemy is Russia".
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