conflict
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Perdue’s comments come after the conclusion of a U.S.-China summit where Trump and Xi pledged to maintain communication and further cooperation to avoid conflict.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
In rare access to Yemen's conflict zone, the BBC has travelled with government forces from Taiz through checkpoints to the line where the Houthi control ends and no man's land begins.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
Communications have been limited since Friday when telecoms providers reported major disruption to phone and internet services in Tigray, making reporting on the conflict difficult.
From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026
The lack of conflict that might have been created on a conventional news channel renders his impromptu network interminably boring.
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026
In any dispute or conflict she invariably sold secrets to both sides.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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Likewise, the manufactured, protracted conflicts among the parents at Legendary Prep Academy, an intensive baseball school in Scottsdale where pupils waste only two hours a day on academics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
New research suggests that the brain may resolve these visual conflicts by allowing different regions to compare their interpretations until a more consistent picture emerges.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026
British journalist Mark Doyle, best known for his reporting on conflicts in Africa in the 1990s and 2000s, has died aged 67 after a short illness.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
The military’s reasoning was that leaking some of the information about these interplanetary conflicts might reduce the shock to the public the day the real revelations came.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
So the agencies, encouraged by the success of that early round of resettlement, brought in other refugees—survivors of the conflicts in Bosnia and Kosovo, and oppressed minorities from the former Soviet Union.
From "Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference" by Warren St. John
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Fellow fan Patti Ann has felt less conflicted over the backlash and instead said Sheeran was in a "no-win situation".
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
LMU’s Guerra said that he believed Pratt voters would be conflicted, and that many Pratt voters may simply choose to sit out the general election.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
Is the brokerage adviser conflicted and are they just going to try to promote their own products?
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026
Plus, Nvidia puts $6 billion more behind open-weight models, and rare-book dealers are conflicted about AI-era sales boost.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
“Thank you for saving me. I was … conflicted for a second. But not anymore.”
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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When the regions produced conflicting patterns, however, the disagreement faded within a fraction of a second.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 24, 2026
Petitioner Lynne McRitchie says there are "outstanding questions" over the published documents and clinical evidence, including conflicting figures about the number of babies affected.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
A payable-on-death or beneficiary designation is a contract and, as such, trumps a conflicting provision in the will.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
These conflicting emotions are cued by music that enacts the characters’ inner lives.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
My thoughts and feelings were a wild, conflicting jumble.
From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli
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