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strife

[strahyf] / straɪf /


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Despite this, he's facing a dwindling number of volunteers and donors - a symptom, as he puts it, of a town "left to fester" in economic strife.

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026

If it was all trouble and strife, depression and anxiety, push and pull, cooking and cleaning, loneliness and isolation, you would never stay in this relationship.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 6, 2026

The trial has laid bare the internal strife within a circle of elite Silicon Valley engineers, investors and executives in the years leading up to the high-profile launch of the ChatGPT chatbot in 2022.

From Barron's • May 11, 2026

Not all librarians have experienced strife and ugliness during years of political division.

From Salon • Apr. 26, 2026

Heraclitus saith that “War is the father of all things,” for we could not subsist without strife within us and unease.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson




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