cross purposes
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From our experience, a company works best when employees aren’t at cross purposes with management.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
Her comedy is dialectical, it rides on characters talking at cross purposes, inhabiting separate clashing realities.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026
For good reason: The gigs are at total cross purposes!
From Slate ● Apr. 19, 2025
The military isn’t the only institution to find itself at cross purposes with young Americans.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 26, 2023
Winston had the feeling that they were talking at cross purposes.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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