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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 with the U.S. could also emerge if he takes a softer approach to neighboring Venezuela and engages more with China, Shifter said.

From Seattle Times • May 17, 2021

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

Frictions persisted as Mr. Perrotta worked to consolidate power within the security detail, giving his team a top role in evaluating threats against Mr. Pruitt and determining the financial resources needed to combat them.

From New York Times • Apr. 12, 2018

Medicins in China consist for the most part of Simples, Decoctions, Cauteries, Frictions, without the use of Blood-letting, 14.

From Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 Giving some Accompt of the present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable parts of the World by Oldenburg, Henry