conflict
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The conflict, which lasted for 74 days between April to June 1982, led to the deaths of 649 Argentine and 255 British servicemen.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026
However, it warned that growth could turn out to be weaker if the conflict in the Middle East were to escalate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
Co-author Kartik Shanker, Professor at CES, says the behavioral effects of lethal human activity could have implications for managing conflict between people and wildlife.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026
Fed officials might be willing to wait, however, to see if the Mideast conflict dies down and reduce the pressure in energy prices.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
Moreover, Hamilton’s complaint—that he could hardly be expected to remember everything he had said over “the course of a fifteen year competition”—inadvertently opened up a whole new and much larger field of conflict.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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But conflicts with the more traditional guard plagued his tenure.
From Barron's ● Jul. 16, 2026
An Air Force veteran, Graham often traveled abroad to understand conflicts firsthand, and he was especially influential with leaders in Europe and the Middle East.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
Scheduling conflicts when the Dodgers played the Nationals in Washington on April 3-5 pushed back the trip.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2026
These agencies handle allegations of judicial misconduct, including bias, conflicts of interest, unethical conduct, abuse of authority, and other violations of the state’s code of judicial ethics.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026
While the rate declined in the 1990s as the shadows cast by the Vietnam War began to recede, it has picked up again as a result of the military conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
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Lando Norris is conflicted - up to a point, anyway.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
And as dramatists, they’re uniquely positioned to appreciate the conflicted loyalties and communal tensions of American life in dramatic rather than dogmatic terms.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 29, 2026
The financially conflicted, who fell in between the two groups, said their priorities were having income for a healthy lifestyle, reducing debt and saving for retirement.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 3, 2026
People feel conflicted because they are weighing more than today’s bills, according to Penny Pennington, managing partner at Edward Jones.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026
Smith was apparently unaware that his advice conflicted with Pollard’s.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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The conflicting views have painted a murky picture of how AI will affect the job market.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
There have been cryptic and conflicting messages on the project's location for months, with Tanzania and the Kenyan port of Mombasa also mooted.
From Barron's ● Jul. 7, 2026
Jason Resendez, president of the National Alliance for Caregiving, sees more caregivers dealing with conflicting emotions surrounding dementia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026
The family of flight passenger Daniel Alejandro Nunez, 28 - who'd also called his mother upon returning to Venezuela while still in state custody - was struggling to make sense of conflicting reports, too.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026
I answered that it was strained, that it attributed nuances to the various conflicting commentaries that were not there, and that, therefore, it really was not a reconciliation at all.
From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok
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