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Frictions between the two have also arisen over trade, technology and investment and India’s growing strategic ties with China’s main rival, the United States.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 5, 2023

Frictions have occasionally spilled into the open in a city where everyone still shops at the same grocery stores, eats at the same restaurants, attends the same Little League games.

From New York Times • May 22, 2023

Frictions with juntas in Mali and Burkina Faso led France to withdraw thousands of troops from those countries over the past year, in what some analysts said could be a boost to Islamist groups.

From Reuters • Mar. 1, 2023

Frictions between father and daughter only intensified after 1949, when Harper Lee dropped out of law school in Alabama and moved to New York to become a writer.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 10, 2018

These Frictions have more than double the friction surface of the older styles, and give considerably more power and are proving the most efficient Frictions ever invented.

From Illustrated Catalogue of Cotton Machinery by Company, Howard & Bullough American Machine