at odds
Example Sentences
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While the common rhetoric often makes it seem like energy and environmental goals are at odds, examples among leading energy and transportation companies have shown otherwise.
From Salon • Apr. 7, 2026
Still, hundreds of families sat out under mild, cloudy skies, picnicking amid sweeping views of the snow-capped Alborz mountains -- a postcard scene at odds with a city under regular attack.
From Barron's • Apr. 2, 2026
One of the earliest readings I encountered was by the theorist David Halperin, who defined “queer” as “whatever is at odds with the normal, the legitimate, the dominant.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026
The two sets of guidelines aren’t totally at odds.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2026
He was living the great paradox of the early American republic: What was politically essential for the survival of the infant nation was ideologically at odds with what it claimed to stand for.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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