conflict
Example Sentences
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This is comparable to the worldwide deaths from armed conflict.
From Los Angeles Times
Federal agents seemed conflicted on how to proceed.
From Salon
As the war drags on, it's hard to find anyone in Ukraine who has not been directly impacted by the conflict.
From BBC
An adherent of Wahhabism, a conservative and fundamentalist interpretation of Sunni Islam, he hopes to rally a population exhausted by over a decade of conflict.
From Barron's
“That would start the clock ticking toward a next round of conflict.”
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